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Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Isabela in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on June 10, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1732S, -67.0285WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico on Friday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16162011. Id of event: pr16162011. The temblor was detected at 15:30:27 / 3:30 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 49 km (30 miles). Exact location, longitude -67.0285° West, latitude 19.1732° North, depth = 49 km. Global time and date of event 10/06/16 / 2016-06-10 19:30:27 / June 10, 2016 @ 7:30 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hatillo, Camuy, Quebradillas (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Camuy (c. 4 200 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 sixteen, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 74 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.0285° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1732° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km N of Isabela, 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 2016-06-10 19:30:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-10 20:06:19 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 148 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7051775 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 259.2 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 pr16162011 Id of event.
Event Code 16162011 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16162011, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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