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Minor earthquake: M3.16 quake has struck near Rincon in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on June 11, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.441S, -67.581WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.16 (ml/mb) was reported 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Rincon in Puerto Rico on Monday. The epicenter was at a depth of 122 km (76 miles). Event id: pr2018162008. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018162008. Exact location of event, longitude -67.581 West, latitude 18.441 North, depth = 122 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/06/18 / 2018-06-11 18:00:57 / June 11, 2018 @ 6:00 pm. The temblor was detected at 13:00:57 / 1:00 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hatillo, Camuy, Sabana Grande. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 54 km (33 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from San Germán (c. 12 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days thirty-three and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 36 km WNW of Rincon, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.16 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.581° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.441° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 122 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km WNW of Rincon, Puerto Rico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-11 18:00:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-11 22:25:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 154 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network pr The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6412 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 173 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr2018162008 Id of event.
Event Code 2018162008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018162008, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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