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Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Puerto Rico region

Posted by admin on May 27, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9215S, -67.2488WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, Puerto Rico region kilometers (0 miles) from Puerto Rico region. Id of earthquake: pr2017145044. Event ids that are associated: pr2017145044. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was detected at 17:16:43 / 5:16 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/05/17 / 2017-05-25 17:16:43 / May 25, 2017 @ 5:16 pm. Exact location, longitude -67.2488° West, latitude 18.9215° North, depth = 5 km.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arecibo, Añasco, San Sebastián (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop).

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

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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: Puerto Rico region. 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 -67.2488° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9215° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Puerto Rico region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-25 17:16:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-26 23:46:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4744 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 226 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 pr2017145044 Id of event.
Event Code 2017145044 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2017145044, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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