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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Culebra in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on February 6, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9161S, -65.2121WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.2121 West, latitude 18.9161 North, depth = 26 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/02/19 / 2019-02-05 21:39:41 / February 5, 2019 @ 9:39 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019036041. Id of event: pr2019036041. The epicenter was at a depth of 26 km (16 miles). The temblor was detected at 17:39:41 / 5:39 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Charlotte Amalie, Culebra (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 70 km (44 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days fourty-four and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 68 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.2121° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9161° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68km N of Culebra, 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 2019-02-05 21:39:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-06 00:42:01 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 121 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 1.0023 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 329 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 pr2019036041 Id of event.
Event Code 2019036041 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019036041, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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