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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near San Juan in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on September 5, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.884S, -66.0615WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 46 kilometers (29 miles) from San Juan in Puerto Rico on Saturday. All ids that are associated to the event: pr15248046. Unique identifier: pr15248046. The epicenter was at a depth of 39 km (24 miles). Exact location, longitude -66.0615° West, latitude 18.884° North, depth = 39 km. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:09:57 / 7:09 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/09/15 / 2015-09-05 23:09:57 / September 5, 2015 @ 11:09 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cidra, Estancias de Florida, Florida (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days ninety-nine and in the last 365 days five hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 46 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.0615° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.884° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km N of San Juan, 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 2015-09-05 23:09:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-05 23:30:26 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 148 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.57222684 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 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 pr15248046 Id of event.
Event Code 15248046 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15248046, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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