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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on June 25, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9722S, -67.637WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 77 kilometers (48 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Saturday. The epicenter was at a depth of 92 km (57 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/06/16 / 2016-06-25 05:19:38 / June 25, 2016 @ 5:19 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.637 West, latitude 18.9722 North, depth = 92 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr16177000. Unique identifier: pr16177000. The temblor was picked up at 00:19:38 / 12:19 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguadilla (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 77 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.637° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9722° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km NW of San Antonio, 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 2016-06-25 05:19:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-25 07:47:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.04204573 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 219.6 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 pr16177000 Id of event.
Event Code 16177000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16177000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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