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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Vieques in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on September 28, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.7838S, -65.5998WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Vieques in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, -65.5998° West, 18.7838° North, depth 24 km. Id of earthquake: pr15271010. Event ids that are associated: pr15271010. The temblor was picked up at 12:49:02 / 12:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 28/09/15 / 2015-09-28 16:49:02 / September 28, 2015 @ 4:49 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 24 km (15 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 64 km (40 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Candelaria, Candelaria Arenas, San Lorenzo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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

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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: 46 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.5998° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.7838° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km NNE of Vieques, 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 2015-09-28 16:49:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-28 19:56:01 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 129 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.56144705 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.09 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 pr15271010 Id of event.
Event Code 15271010 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15271010, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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