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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Arecibo in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 16, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.6352S, -66.666WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Arecibo in Puerto Rico on Monday. The epicenter was at a depth of 99 km (62 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.666 West, latitude 18.6352 North, depth = 99 km. The temblor was reported at 10:46:39 / 10:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/01/17 / 2017-01-16 14:46:39 / January 16, 2017 @ 2:46 pm. Id of earthquake: pr17016009. Event ids that are associated: pr17016009.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Carolina, Santa Isabel, Cabo Rojo. Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop).

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 four, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 18 km NNE of Arecibo, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.666° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.6352° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km NNE of Arecibo, 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 14:46:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-16 15:23:53 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 148 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.20391757 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 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 pr17016009 Id of event.
Event Code 17016009 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr17016009, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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