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Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near Hatillo in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 15, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1828S, -66.6806WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Hatillo in Puerto Rico. The temblor was reported at 17:08:59 / 5:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/01/17 / 2017-01-15 21:08:59 / January 15, 2017 @ 9:08 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24 km (15 miles). Id of earthquake: pr17015003. Event ids that are associated: pr17015003. Exact location, longitude -66.6806° West, latitude 19.1828° North, depth = 24 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Quebradillas, Barceloneta, Camuy. Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Camuy (c. 4 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 78 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.6806° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1828° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 78km N of Hatillo, 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 2017-01-15 21:08:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-15 21:48:12 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 178 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.71505897 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 270 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 pr17015003 Id of event.
Event Code 17015003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr17015003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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