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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Brenas in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on August 5, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.2803S, -66.3174WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Brenas in Puerto Rico. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:30:02 / 3:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 05/08/15 / 2015-08-05 07:30:02 / August 5, 2015 @ 7:30 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -66.3174 West, latitude 19.2803 North, depth = 28.51 km. Id of earthquake: us10002y1k. Event ids that are associated: us10002y1k. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 28.51 km (18 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vega Alta, Sabana Seca, Campanilla. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Cataño (c. 28 100 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Dorado (c. 13 100 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Vega Alta (c. 12 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fifty-nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and four and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 90 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.3174° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2803° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90km N of Brenas, 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 2015-08-05 07:30:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-05 07:44:33 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 312 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 0.823 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10002y1k Id of event.
Event Code 10002y1k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002y1k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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