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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Culebra in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 13, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9843S, -65.3216WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico on Friday. Exact location of event, depth 73 km, -65.3216° West, 18.9843° North. Id of earthquake: pr17013003. Event ids that are associated: pr17013003. Global time and date of event 13/01/17 / 2017-01-13 04:46:17 / January 13, 2017 @ 4:46 am UTC/GMT. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:46:17 / 12:46 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 73 km (45 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Culebra (min 5000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 75 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.3216° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9843° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km 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 2017-01-13 04:46:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-13 08:42:21 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.67373646 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 266.4 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 pr17013003 Id of event.
Event Code 17013003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr17013003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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