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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Toa Baja in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on May 20, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.4309S, -66.2565WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Toa Baja in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/05/16 / 2016-05-20 08:23:53 / May 20, 2016 @ 8:23 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 116 km (72 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.2565 West, latitude 18.4309 North, depth = 116 km. The temblor was picked up at 04:23:53 / 4:23 am (local time epicenter). Event id: pr16141005. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16141005.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yauco, Guayanilla, Quebradillas (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 1 km SSE of Toa Baja, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.2565° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.4309° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 116 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km SSE of Toa Baja, 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 2016-05-20 08:23:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-20 12:08:17 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.26230806 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 169.2 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 pr16141005 Id of event.
Event Code 16141005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16141005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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