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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Arecibo in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on February 8, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.4643S, -66.724WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Arecibo in Puerto Rico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 91 km (57 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:55:51 / 2:55 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.724 West, latitude 18.4643 North, depth = 91 km. Event id: pr16039005. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16039005. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/02/16 / 2016-02-08 18:55:51 / February 8, 2016 @ 6:55 pm.

Event epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Trujillo Alto, Caguas, Cayey (min 5000 pop). 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 1 km SW of Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.724° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.4643° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km SW of Arecibo, 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 2016-02-08 18:55:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-08 19:25:45 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.11947593 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 172.8 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 pr16039005 Id of event.
Event Code 16039005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16039005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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