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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Vieques in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on August 13, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.6875S, -65.7969WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Vieques in Puerto Rico on Friday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16226000. Id of event: pr16226000. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39 km (24 miles). The temblor was picked up at 20:41:56 / 8:41 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -65.7969° West, 18.6875° North, depth 39 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/08/16 / 2016-08-13 00:41:56 / August 13, 2016 @ 12:41 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Maunabo, Morovis, Cayey. Event epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days four hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 29 km N of Vieques, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.7969° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.6875° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km N of Vieques, 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 2016-08-13 00:41:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-13 06:02:58 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.41771661 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 205.2 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 pr16226000 Id of event.
Event Code 16226000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16226000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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