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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Emajagua in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on December 15, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9069S, -65.8886WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Emajagua in Puerto Rico. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/12/16 / 2016-12-15 15:20:49 / December 15, 2016 @ 3:20 pm. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:20:49 / 11:20 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -65.8886° West, 17.9069° North, depth 8 km. Id of earthquake: pr16350002. Event ids that are associated: pr16350002. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8 km (5 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 66 km (41 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Culebra, San Antonio, Dorado.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 10 km S of Emajagua, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.8886° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9069° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km S of Emajagua, 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 2016-12-15 15:20:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-15 15:56:41 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 129 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 0.21559567 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 219.6 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 pr16350002 Id of event.
Event Code 16350002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16350002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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