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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near La Plena in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 16, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.0478S, -66.1938WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 1 kilometers (1 miles) from La Plena in Puerto Rico on Sunday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 15 km (9 miles). The temblor was detected at 22:56:03 / 10:56 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 15 km, -66.1938° West, 18.0478° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/01/17 / 2017-01-16 02:56:03 / January 16, 2017 @ 2:56 am. Event id: pr17016000. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr17016000.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lares, Guánica, Arecibo (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 1 km E of La Plena, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.1938° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0478° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km E of La Plena, 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 2017-01-16 02:56:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-16 03:27:58 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07456017 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133.2 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 pr17016000 Id of event.
Event Code 17016000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr17016000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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