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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near La Playa in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on August 3, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.2357S, -67.222WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from La Playa in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Exact location, longitude -67.222° West, latitude 18.2357° North, depth = 129 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/08/16 / 2016-08-03 02:38:32 / August 3, 2016 @ 2:38 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 129 km (80 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: pr16216002. Unique identifier: pr16216002. The temblor was detected at 22:38:32 / 10:38 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ciales, Manatí, Juana Díaz. Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km SSW of La Playa, 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 -67.222° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2357° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 129 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km SSW of La Playa, 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 2016-08-03 02:38:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-03 05:11:25 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.14193381 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 147.6 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 pr16216002 Id of event.
Event Code 16216002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16216002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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