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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on July 30, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0881S, -66.4588WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, -66.4588° West, 19.0881° North, depth 52 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/07/15 / 2015-07-30 13:02:51 / July 30, 2015 @ 1:02 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: pr15211019. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15211019. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:02:51 / 9:02 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 52 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Levittown, Vega Alta, Ingenio (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 seventeen, in the last 10 days fourty-four, in the past 30 days sixty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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 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: 69 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.4588° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0881° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, 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 2015-07-30 13:02:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-30 17:33:16 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.61085439 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 288 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 pr15211019 Id of event.
Event Code 15211019 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15211019, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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