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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Hatillo in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on June 10, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1149S, -66.6956WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Hatillo in Puerto Rico. Global time and date of event 09/06/16 / 2016-06-09 20:58:06 / June 9, 2016 @ 8:58 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr16161003. Ids that are associated to the event: pr16161003. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The temblor was detected at 16:58:06 / 4:58 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -66.6956° West, 19.1149° North.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Isabela, Quebradillas, Barceloneta (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop).

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

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 70 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.6956° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1149° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km N of Hatillo, 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 2016-06-09 20:58:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-10 00:28:10 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 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.75458484 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 262.8 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 pr16161003 Id of event.
Event Code 16161003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16161003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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