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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Angochi in Aruba

Posted by admin on May 13, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.2628S, -69.9989WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Angochi in Aruba. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -69.9989 West, latitude 12.2628 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 18:11:11 / 6:11 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000e4ba. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000e4ba. Exact time and date of earthquake 13/05/18 / 2018-05-13 22:41:11 / May 13, 2018 @ 10:41 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cardón, Punto Fijo, Arasji (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) from Punto Fijo (c. 131 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Punta Cardón (c. 58 900 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Babijn (c. 40 600 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Oranjestad (c. 30 000 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Angochi (c. 29 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Aruba (c. 72 000 pop), Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days 0 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 28 km S of Angochi, Aruba.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.9989° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.2628° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km S of Angochi, Aruba Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-13 22:41:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-13 23:08:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -270 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 122 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.241 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 167 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000e4ba Id of event.
Event Code 1000e4ba An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e4ba, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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