Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Small World Earthquakes

Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Rincon in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on November 19, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.1539S, -67.861WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Rincon in Puerto Rico. The temblor was reported at 22:07:22 / 10:07 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr15323002. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15323002. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 65 km (40 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -67.861° West, 18.1539° North, depth 65 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/11/15 / 2015-11-19 03:07:22 / November 19, 2015 @ 3:07 am.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Cabo Rojo (c. 10 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Puerto Real (c. 6 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hormigueros, Añasco, Mayagüez (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

How would you describe the shaking?

Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 67 km WSW of Rincon, Puerto Rico.

Copyright © 2015 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.861° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.1539° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km WSW 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 2015-11-19 03:07:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-19 09:50:41 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 148 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.42849639 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 201.6 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 pr15323002 Id of event.
Event Code 15323002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15323002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information

Information and facts about all earthquakes today. Earthquake news and analysis on current events, Plate Tectonics, Seismometers, quake prediction, environment, Tsunamis, Seismologists, Prediction, live now, videos, information, pictures and much more. Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today.

© 2024 Earthquakes today - Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today