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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Brenas in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on April 28, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1054S, -66.288WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Brenas in Puerto Rico. Global time and date of event 28/04/16 / 2016-04-28 11:45:07 / April 28, 2016 @ 11:45 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 07:45:07 / 7:45 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr16119002. Event ids that are associated: pr16119002. The epicenter was at a depth of 27 km (17 miles). Exact location of event, depth 27 km, -66.288° West, 19.1054° North.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vega Alta, Candelaria Arenas, Campanilla (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Cataño (c. 28 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Dorado (c. 13 100 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 0, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 70 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.288° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1054° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km N of Brenas, 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 2016-04-28 11:45:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-28 12:06:54 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.81387365 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 288 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 pr16119002 Id of event.
Event Code 16119002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16119002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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