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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag was detected near Rincon in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on September 29, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.6049S, -67.7659WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Rincon in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/09/15 / 2015-09-28 23:26:54 / September 28, 2015 @ 11:26 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -67.7659° West, 18.6049° North, depth 145 km. The temblor was picked up at 18:26:54 / 6:26 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 145 km (90 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: pr15271016. Event ids that are associated: pr15271016.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 67 km (42 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mayagüez, Isabela, Añasco (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days fifty-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 61 km WNW of Rincon, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.7659° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.6049° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 145 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61km WNW 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 2015-09-28 23:26:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-29 04:19:48 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 168 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 0.9935367 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 334.8 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 pr15271016 Id of event.
Event Code 15271016 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15271016, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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