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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Catano in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on March 1, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.4342S, -66.1045WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Catano in Puerto Rico. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 115 km (71 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 01/03/16 / 2016-03-01 13:30:50 / March 1, 2016 @ 1:30 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: pr16061008. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16061008. The temblor was detected at 09:30:50 / 9:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 115 km, -66.1045° West, 18.4342° North.

Earthquake epicenter was 4 km (2 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Camuy, Peñuelas, Isabel Segunda (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 1 km ESE of Catano, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.1045° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.4342° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 115 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km ESE of Catano, 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 2016-03-01 13:30:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-01 15:09:48 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 138 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.28476595 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 176.4 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 pr16061008 Id of event.
Event Code 16061008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16061008, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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