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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 27 km NNW of San Juan, Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on March 3, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.6991S, -66.1962WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from San Juan in Puerto Rico. The temblor was detected at 10:45:18 / 10:45 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr16063003. Event ids that are associated: pr16063003. Exact location of event, longitude -66.1962 West, latitude 18.6991 North, depth = 58 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/03/16 / 2016-03-03 14:45:18 / March 3, 2016 @ 2:45 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 58 km (36 miles).

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Coco, Punta Santiago, Ceiba (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 27 km NNW of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.1962° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.6991° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km NNW of San Juan, 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 2016-03-03 14:45:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-03 15:47:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 129 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.38537726 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 234 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 pr16063003 Id of event.
Event Code 16063003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16063003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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