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Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near Arecibo in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on June 9, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.5485S, -66.732WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Arecibo in Puerto Rico. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/06/16 / 2016-06-08 23:56:40 / June 8, 2016 @ 11:56 pm. The temblor was reported at 19:56:40 / 7:56 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -66.732° West, 18.5485° North, depth 83 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 83 km (52 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr16160008. Unique identifier: pr16160008.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 67 km (41 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Caguas, Trujillo Alto, Salinas (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 two, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 8 km NNW of Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.732° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.5485° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km NNW 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 2016-06-08 23:56:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-09 00:30:08 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 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07725511 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 208.8 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 pr16160008 Id of event.
Event Code 16160008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16160008, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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