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Minor earthquake, 2.83 mag was detected near Hatillo in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on May 31, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1163S, -66.8348WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) was reported 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Hatillo in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. The 2.83-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:37:09 / 2:37 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 20 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 20 km, -66.8348° West, 19.1163° North. Unique identifier: pr2017150004. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2017150004. Global time and date of event 30/05/17 / 2017-05-30 06:37:09 / May 30, 2017 @ 6:37 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Camuy (c. 4 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arecibo, Quebradillas, Isabela.

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

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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: 69 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.83 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8348° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1163° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km N of Hatillo, 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 2017-05-30 06:37:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-31 00:31:51 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 123 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7052 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 268 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 pr2017150004 Id of event.
Event Code 2017150004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2017150004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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