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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Puerto Rico region

Posted by admin on July 30, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.8239S, -65.5254WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, Puerto Rico region kilometers (0 miles) from Puerto Rico region. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 45 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -65.5254° West, latitude 18.8239° North, depth = 45 km. Id of earthquake: pr16212007. Event ids that are associated: pr16212007. The temblor was reported at 13:17:44 / 1:17 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 30/07/16 / 2016-07-30 13:17:44 / July 30, 2016 @ 1:17 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Santiago, Cataño, Isabel Segunda (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 73 km (45 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Cataño (c. 28 100 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days six hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.5254° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8239° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Puerto Rico region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-30 13:17:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-30 20:12:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 0.56324368 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 248.4 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 pr16212007 Id of event.
Event Code 16212007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16212007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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