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Minor earthquake 2.89 mag, 58 km W of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on April 24, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9701S, -67.741WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) was reported 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Pole Ojea in Puerto Rico on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -67.741 West, latitude 17.9701 North, depth = 24 km. Event id: pr2017114001. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2017114001. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/04/17 / 2017-04-24 09:21:10 / April 24, 2017 @ 9:21 am. The 2.89-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:21:10 / 4:21 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Germán, Aguada, Lajas (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from San Germán (c. 12 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Cabo Rojo (c. 10 800 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Puerto Real (c. 6 200 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 58 km W of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.89 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.741° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9701° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km W of Pole Ojea, 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 2017-04-24 09:21:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-24 22:35:58 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 128 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6324 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 339 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 pr2017114001 Id of event.
Event Code 2017114001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2017114001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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