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Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag has occurred near Mona Passage, Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on July 20, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.0611S, -67.9985WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, Mona Passage, Puerto Rico kilometers (0 miles) from Mona Passage, Puerto Rico. Unique identifier: pr2018201002. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018201002. The 2.85-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:18:36 / 2:18 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -67.9985° West, 18.0611° North, depth 68 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 68 km (42 miles). Global time and date of event 20/07/18 / 2018-07-20 02:18:36 / July 20, 2018 @ 2:18 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana. Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.9985° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0611° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Mona Passage, 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 2018-07-20 02:18:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-20 05:01:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 125 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 0.593 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 227 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 pr2018201002 Id of event.
Event Code 2018201002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018201002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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