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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Rincon in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on September 6, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.7015S, -67.5999WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Rincon in Puerto Rico. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/09/15 / 2015-09-05 23:39:11 / September 5, 2015 @ 11:39 pm. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:39:11 / 6:39 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -67.5999 West, latitude 18.7015 North, depth = 45 km. Id of earthquake: pr15248053. Event ids that are associated: pr15248053. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 45 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Sebastián, Quebradillas, Mayagüez. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days three hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 54 km NW of Rincon, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.5999° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.7015° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km NW of Rincon, 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 23:39:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-06 00:42:39 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 121 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 3 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.71416065 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 324 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 pr15248053 Id of event.
Event Code 15248053 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15248053, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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