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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on October 9, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1452S, -66.543WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico. The epicenter was at a depth of 9 km (6 miles). Event id: pr16283000. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16283000. Global time and date of event 09/10/16 / 2016-10-09 00:11:49 / October 9, 2016 @ 12:11 am UTC/GMT. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:11:49 / 8:11 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 9 km, -66.543° West, 19.1452° North.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Barceloneta, Arecibo (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 75 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.543° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1452° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, 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 2016-10-09 00:11:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-09 04:32:48 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 138 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.66475331 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 255.6 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 pr16283000 Id of event.
Event Code 16283000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16283000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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