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Minor earthquake 2.91 mag, 75 km N of Vieques, Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on May 20, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1046S, -65.7471WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Vieques in Puerto Rico. The 2.91-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:47:18 / 10:47 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2017138002. Id of event: pr2017138002. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 53 km (33 miles). Global time and date of event 18/05/17 / 2017-05-18 02:47:18 / May 18, 2017 @ 2:47 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -65.7471 West, latitude 19.1046 North, depth = 53 km.

The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Loíza (c. 4 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Loíza (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each 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 six, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 75 km N of Vieques, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.91 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.7471° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1046° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km N of Vieques, 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 2017-05-18 02:47:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-20 19:25:18 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 130 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 0.8638 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 254 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 pr2017138002 Id of event.
Event Code 2017138002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2017138002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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