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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near El Negro in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on September 3, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.8904S, -65.6358WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from El Negro in Puerto Rico. The epicenter was at a depth of 4 km (2 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 03/09/16 / 2016-09-03 02:41:30 / September 3, 2016 @ 2:41 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr16247005. Ids that are associated to the event: pr16247005. The temblor was picked up at 22:41:30 / 10:41 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -65.6358 West, latitude 17.8904 North, depth = 4 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Comerío, Guaynabo, Aibonito (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 64 km (40 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop). Close 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. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 28 km SE of El Negro, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.6358° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8904° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km SE of El Negro, 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 2016-09-03 02:41:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-03 03:20:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.22008724 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 180 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 pr16247005 Id of event.
Event Code 16247005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16247005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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