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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Rincon in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on March 1, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.1875S, -67.5371WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Rincon in Puerto Rico. Exact location, longitude -67.5371° West, latitude 18.1875° North, depth = 15 km. The temblor was detected at 15:47:59 / 3:47 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 15 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: pr17059008. Ids that are associated to the event: pr17059008. Global time and date of event 28/02/17 / 2017-02-28 20:47:59 / February 28, 2017 @ 8:47 pm UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 42 km (26 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from San Germán (c. 12 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yauco, Guánica, Quebradillas (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 34 km WSW of Rincon, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.5371° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.1875° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km 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 2017-02-28 20:47:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-28 23:58:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 121 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.44466607 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 298.8 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 pr17059008 Id of event.
Event Code 17059008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr17059008, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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