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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on April 14, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9281S, -67.263WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 51 kilometers (32 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Thursday. Exact location of event, longitude -67.263 West, latitude 18.9281 North, depth = 44 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/04/16 / 2016-04-14 11:03:51 / April 14, 2016 @ 11:03 am. Id of earthquake: pr16105024. Event ids that are associated: pr16105024. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:03:51 / 7:03 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 44 km (27 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arecibo, Añasco, San Sebastián.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 51 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.263° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9281° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51km 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 2016-04-14 11:03:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-14 13:37:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 130 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.75278821 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 302.4 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 pr16105024 Id of event.
Event Code 16105024 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16105024, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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