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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on March 26, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.8971S, -67.3785WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, depth 4 km, -67.3785° West, 18.8971° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/03/16 / 2016-03-26 10:58:09 / March 26, 2016 @ 10:58 am. The temblor was reported at 06:58:09 / 6:58 am (local time epicenter). Event id: pr16086000. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16086000. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Sebastián, Hatillo, Añasco (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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: 53 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.3785° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8971° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km NNW of San Antonio, 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 2016-03-26 10:58:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-26 11:12:44 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 121 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.49587004 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 284.4 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 pr16086000 Id of event.
Event Code 16086000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16086000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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