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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 7 km NNE of Loiza, Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on April 29, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.4988S, -65.8659WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Loiza in Puerto Rico. Event id: pr16120005. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16120005. Exact location of event, depth 126 km, -65.8659° West, 18.4988° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 126 km (78 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 18:11:36 / 6:11 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/04/16 / 2016-04-29 22:11:36 / April 29, 2016 @ 10:11 pm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Villalba, Estancias de Florida, Florida.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, 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 struck near. 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.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 7 km NNE of Loiza, 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 -65.8659° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.4988° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 126 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km NNE of Loiza, 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 2016-04-29 22:11:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-29 22:54:53 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.22637545 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 187.2 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 pr16120005 Id of event.
Event Code 16120005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16120005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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