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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Puerto Real in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on October 17, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.103S, -67.4937WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Puerto Real in Puerto Rico on Sunday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/10/16 / 2016-10-16 23:44:43 / October 16, 2016 @ 11:44 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -67.4937° West, 18.103° North, depth 11 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11 km (7 miles). The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:44:43 / 7:44 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr16290007. Ids that are associated to the event: pr16290007.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guayanilla, Quebradillas, Lares (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 39 km (24 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 47 km (30 miles) from San Germán (c. 12 100 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 32 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.4937° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.103° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32km W of Puerto Real, 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 2016-10-16 23:44:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-17 04:18:59 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.28027437 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 252 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 pr16290007 Id of event.
Event Code 16290007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16290007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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