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Minor earthquake: M3.2 quake has struck near Isabela in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on August 6, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1441S, -66.9244WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico. The temblor was picked up at 01:33:44 / 1:33 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr15218003. Event ids that are associated: pr15218003. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.9244 West, latitude 19.1441 North, depth = 51 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 51 km (32 miles). Global time and date of event 06/08/15 / 2015-08-06 05:33:44 / August 6, 2015 @ 5:33 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arecibo, Quebradillas, Camuy (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Camuy (c. 4 200 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-two, in the last 10 days sixty-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty-six and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 71 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.9244° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1441° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71km N of Isabela, 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 2015-08-06 05:33:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-06 05:47:33 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 158 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.69529603 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 259.2 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 pr15218003 Id of event.
Event Code 15218003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15218003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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