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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Culebra in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on September 4, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9185S, -65.3947WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico on Sunday. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:46:46 / 1:46 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 44 km (27 miles). Id of earthquake: pr16248014. Event ids that are associated: pr16248014. Exact location, longitude -65.3947° West, latitude 18.9185° North, depth = 44 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/09/16 / 2016-09-04 05:46:46 / September 4, 2016 @ 5:46 am.

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Río Grande, Loíza, Fajardo (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Río Grande (c. 13 500 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Luquillo (c. 8 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Loíza (c. 4 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop).

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

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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. 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: 68 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.3947° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9185° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68km N of Culebra, 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 2016-09-04 05:46:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-04 08:58:24 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.61624428 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 277.2 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 pr16248014 Id of event.
Event Code 16248014 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16248014, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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