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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Culebra in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on October 28, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9568S, -65.265WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico. The temblor was detected at 21:24:44 / 9:24 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -65.265° West, 18.9568° North, depth 19 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/10/16 / 2016-10-28 01:24:44 / October 28, 2016 @ 1:24 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: pr16302000. Event ids that are associated: pr16302000. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Charlotte Amalie, Culebra. Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days four hundred and ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 72 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.265° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9568° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 72km 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 2016-10-28 01:24:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-28 03:23:41 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 158 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.64588869 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 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 pr16302000 Id of event.
Event Code 16302000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16302000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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