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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Arecibo in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on May 8, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.545S, -66.6696WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Arecibo in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, longitude -66.6696 West, latitude 18.545 North, depth = 13 km. Event id: pr16129002. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16129002. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 13 km (8 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/05/16 / 2016-05-08 03:34:10 / May 8, 2016 @ 3:34 am. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:34:10 / 11:34 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Carolina, Puerto Real, Salinas (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 9 km NNE of Arecibo, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.6696° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.545° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km NNE of Arecibo, 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 2016-05-08 03:34:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-08 03:55:10 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.21290072 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 198 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 pr16129002 Id of event.
Event Code 16129002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16129002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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