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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Esperanza in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on October 2, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.0412S, -65.397WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Esperanza in Puerto Rico. The temblor was reported at 04:12:14 / 4:12 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -65.397° West, latitude 18.0412° North, depth = 18 km. Id of earthquake: pr15275007. Event ids that are associated: pr15275007. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/10/15 / 2015-10-02 08:12:14 / October 2, 2015 @ 8:12 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18 km (11 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Saint Croix, Guayama, Trujillo Alto (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 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. 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: 9 km SE of Esperanza, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.397° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0412° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km SE of Esperanza, 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 2015-10-02 08:12:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-02 11:45:33 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.15810349 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 147.6 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 pr15275007 Id of event.
Event Code 15275007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15275007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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