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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Barranquitas in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on August 5, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.1455S, -66.3168WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Barranquitas in Puerto Rico. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16218009. Id of event: pr16218009. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.3168 West, latitude 18.1455 North, depth = 8 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/08/16 / 2016-08-05 19:28:54 / August 5, 2016 @ 7:28 pm. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:28:54 / 3:28 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Quebradillas, San Sebastián, Fajardo (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 4 km SSW of Barranquitas, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.3168° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.1455° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km SSW of Barranquitas, 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 2016-08-05 19:28:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-05 20:49:56 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 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.14912034 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 126 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 pr16218009 Id of event.
Event Code 16218009 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16218009, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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