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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Mayaguez in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on October 30, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.1697S, -67.2615WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Mayaguez in Puerto Rico on Saturday. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:04:53 / 11:04 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: pr16304000. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16304000. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 29 km (18 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/10/16 / 2016-10-30 03:04:53 / October 30, 2016 @ 3:04 am. Exact location of event, longitude -67.2615 West, latitude 18.1697 North, depth = 29 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Florida, Estancias de Florida, Jayuya. Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 13 km WSW of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2615° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.1697° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km WSW of Mayaguez, 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 2016-10-30 03:04:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-30 03:24:02 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 0.11947593 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 176.4 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 pr16304000 Id of event.
Event Code 16304000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16304000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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