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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Arecibo in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on June 16, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.6128S, -66.735WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Arecibo in Puerto Rico on Thursday. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:26:38 / 4:26 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/06/16 / 2016-06-16 20:26:38 / June 16, 2016 @ 8:26 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -66.735 West, latitude 18.6128 North, depth = 75 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 75 km (47 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr16168008. Unique identifier: pr16168008.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santa Isabel, Cidra, Aguas Buenas. Event epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 15 km N of Arecibo, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.735° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.6128° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km N 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 2016-06-16 20:26:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-16 21:39:05 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.26500301 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 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 pr16168008 Id of event.
Event Code 16168008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16168008, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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