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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near San Juan in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on March 6, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.5055S, -66.1555WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from San Juan in Puerto Rico. The epicenter was at a depth of 81 km (50 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -66.1555 West, latitude 18.5055 North, depth = 81 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/03/17 / 2017-03-06 02:00:49 / March 6, 2017 @ 2:00 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 22:00:49 / 10:00 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr17065001. Id of event: pr17065001.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Peñuelas, Ponce, Camuy. Earthquake epicenter was 7 km (4 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km NW of San Juan, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.1555° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.5055° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km NW of San Juan, 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 2017-03-06 02:00:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-06 04:19:59 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.20661252 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 194.4 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 pr17065001 Id of event.
Event Code 17065001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr17065001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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