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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Luquillo in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on November 8, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9743S, -65.4705WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Luquillo in Puerto Rico on Sunday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/11/20 / 2020-11-08 10:18:48 / November 8, 2020 @ 10:18 am. Exact location of event, depth 25.92 km, -65.4705° West, 18.9743° North. Unique identifier: us7000cc2u. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000cc2u. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:18:48 / 10:18 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25.92 km (16 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Barbara, San Isidro, Culebra (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Río Grande (c. 13 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Luquillo (c. 8 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from San Isidro (c. 8 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Santa Barbara (c. 5 200 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 71 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.4705° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9743° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71 km NNE of Luquillo, 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 2020-11-08 10:18:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-08 10:57:59 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 148 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 0.88 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 311 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 us7000cc2u Id of event.
Event Code 7000cc2u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cc2u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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