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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 73 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on June 7, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1256S, -66.4732WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/06/16 / 2016-06-07 11:13:44 / June 7, 2016 @ 11:13 am. Exact location of earthquake, -66.4732° West, 19.1256° North, depth 34 km. The temblor was reported at 07:13:44 / 7:13 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 34 km (21 miles). Unique identifier: pr16159004. Ids that are associated to the event: pr16159004.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arecibo, Ceiba, Vega Baja (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Ceiba (c. 6 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days four hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 73 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.4732° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1256° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, 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 2016-06-07 11:13:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-07 11:30:40 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.646787 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 241.2 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 pr16159004 Id of event.
Event Code 16159004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16159004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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