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Minor earthquake, 2.99 mag was detected near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on October 20, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.8733S, -67.483WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. The temblor was picked up at 07:17:09 / 7:17 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4 km (2 miles). Unique identifier: pr2018293006. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018293006. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/10/18 / 2018-10-20 11:17:09 / October 20, 2018 @ 11:17 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.483 West, latitude 18.8733 North, depth = 4 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Añasco, Quebradillas, Moca (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 60 km (38 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days fourty-four and in the last 365 days three hundred and ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 58 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.99 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.483° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8733° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km NW of San Antonio, 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 2018-10-20 11:17:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-20 16:40:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 138 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5504 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 229 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 pr2018293006 Id of event.
Event Code 2018293006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018293006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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