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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag was detected near San Juan in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on November 5, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.4981S, -66.1313WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 114 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico (71 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 05/11/15 / 2015-11-05 14:01:09 / November 5, 2015 @ 2:01 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:01:09 / 10:01 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 66 km (41 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15309003. Id of event: pr15309003. Exact location of event, longitude -66.1313 West, latitude 19.4981 North, depth = 66 km.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 five, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days four hundred and fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 114 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.1313° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4981° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 114km N of San Juan, 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 2015-11-05 14:01:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-05 14:33:55 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 178 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.08246992 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 262.8 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 pr15309003 Id of event.
Event Code 15309003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15309003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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