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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag was detected near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on May 15, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0186S, -67.5503WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 75 kilometers (47 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Saturday. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:58:04 / 7:58 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -67.5503° West, 19.0186° North, depth 9 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/05/16 / 2016-05-15 00:58:04 / May 15, 2016 @ 12:58 am. Event id: pr16136000. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16136000.

Earthquake epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Rincón (c. 1 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Moca, Rincón, Aguada (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 75 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.5503° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0186° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km NW of San Antonio, 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 2016-05-15 00:58:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-15 01:48:54 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 178 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 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.94682431 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 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 pr16136000 Id of event.
Event Code 16136000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16136000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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