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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on July 17, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.8543S, -67.5924WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 65 kilometers (40 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Thursday. A tsunami warning has been issued near San Antonio in Puerto Rico (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us20002y33. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00nrm4n2, us20002y33. Exact location of event, depth 34.43 km, -67.5924° West, 18.8543° North. The temblor was detected at 22:35:28 / 10:35 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 34.43 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/07/15 / 2015-07-17 03:35:28 / July 17, 2015 @ 3:35 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Las Marías, Punta Cana, Hatillo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 91 km (56 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 65 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.5924° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8543° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km 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 2015-07-17 03:35:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-17 03:54:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 1 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 285 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 ,at,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 0.596 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 81 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 us20002y33 Id of event.
Event Code 20002y33 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00nrm4n2,us20002y33, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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