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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Hatillo in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on May 4, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1107S, -66.7488WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Hatillo in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude -66.7488 West, latitude 19.1107 North, depth = 30 km. Id of earthquake: pr16125003. Event ids that are associated: pr16125003. The temblor was detected at 04:26:01 / 4:26 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 30 km (19 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/05/16 / 2016-05-04 08:26:01 / May 4, 2016 @ 8:26 am.

Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Barceloneta, Isabela, Quebradillas (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 69 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7488° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1107° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km N of Hatillo, 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 2016-05-04 08:26:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-04 12:24:00 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.66385499 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 244.8 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 pr16125003 Id of event.
Event Code 16125003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16125003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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