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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Puerto Real in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on July 15, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.1338S, -67.4636WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Puerto Real in Puerto Rico on Friday. Exact location of event, longitude -67.4636 West, latitude 18.1338 North, depth = 16 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 16 km (10 miles). The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:56:26 / 3:56 am (local time epicenter). Event id: pr16197005. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16197005. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/07/16 / 2016-07-15 07:56:26 / July 15, 2016 @ 7:56 am.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Camuy, Guayanilla, Quebradillas. Event epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from San Germán (c. 12 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 29 km WNW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.4636° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.1338° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km WNW of Puerto Real, 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 2016-07-15 07:56:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-15 08:30:56 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 121 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 0.35932611 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 291.6 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 pr16197005 Id of event.
Event Code 16197005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16197005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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