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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Sabana Seca in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on March 1, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.4137S, -66.1745WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Sabana Seca in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 105 km (65 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/03/17 / 2017-03-01 13:36:45 / March 1, 2017 @ 1:36 pm. The temblor was reported at 09:36:45 / 9:36 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -66.1745 West, latitude 18.4137 North, depth = 105 km. Id of earthquake: pr17060007. Event ids that are associated: pr17060007.

Epicenter of the event was 9 km (6 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 3 km (2 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lares, Camuy, Peñuelas (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 1 km SE of Sabana Seca, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.1745° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.4137° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 105 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km SE of Sabana Seca, 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 2017-03-01 13:36:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-01 15:59:17 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.13564561 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 190.8 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 pr17060007 Id of event.
Event Code 17060007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr17060007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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