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Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Rincon in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 21, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.2672S, -67.439WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Rincon in Puerto Rico. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 75 km (47 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/01/17 / 2017-01-21 14:34:38 / January 21, 2017 @ 2:34 pm. Exact location of event, depth 75 km, -67.439° West, 18.2672° North. The temblor was detected at 10:34:38 / 10:34 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr17021006. Id of event: pr17021006.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Utuado, Adjuntas, Adjuntas. Event epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 21 km WSW of Rincon, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.439° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2672° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km WSW of Rincon, 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 2017-01-21 14:34:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-21 15:48:14 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.34764801 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 288 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 pr17021006 Id of event.
Event Code 17021006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr17021006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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