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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Culebra in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on September 11, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9333S, -65.2993WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico on Friday. The temblor was picked up at 02:53:34 / 2:53 am (local time epicenter). Event id: pr15254005. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15254005. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/09/15 / 2015-09-11 06:53:34 / September 11, 2015 @ 6:53 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -65.2993° West, latitude 18.9333° North, depth = 33 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fajardo, Charlotte Amalie, Luquillo. The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Luquillo (c. 8 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days fifty-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and nine and in the last 365 days five hundred and sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 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. 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: 69 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.2993° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km N of Culebra, 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 2015-09-11 06:53:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-11 08:31:06 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 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.62253249 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 255.6 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 pr15254005 Id of event.
Event Code 15254005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15254005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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