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Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Aguadilla in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on August 21, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9095S, -67.6891WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Aguadilla in Puerto Rico on Thursday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 40 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/08/15 / 2015-08-21 03:16:43 / August 21, 2015 @ 3:16 am. Exact location of event, depth 40 km, -67.6891° West, 18.9095° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15233003. Id of event: pr15233003. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:16:43 / 10:16 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Rincón (c. 1 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rincón, Aguadilla (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days fourty-one and in the last 365 days three hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 77 km NW of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.6891° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9095° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km NW of Aguadilla, 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 2015-08-21 03:16:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-21 08:54:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 138 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.55875211 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 226.8 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 pr15233003 Id of event.
Event Code 15233003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15233003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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