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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Rincon in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on April 16, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.2467S, -67.7535WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Rincon in Puerto Rico on Saturday. The epicenter was at a depth of 2 km (1 miles). Unique identifier: pr16107002. Ids that are associated to the event: pr16107002. The temblor was detected at 01:09:17 / 1:09 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 16/04/16 / 2016-04-16 06:09:17 / April 16, 2016 @ 6:09 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -67.7535° West, 18.2467° North, depth 2 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from San Germán (c. 12 100 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana, San Germán, Lajas.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 54 km W of Rincon, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.7535° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2467° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km W 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 2016-04-16 06:09:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-16 08:40:09 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 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2937491 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 180 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 pr16107002 Id of event.
Event Code 16107002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16107002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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