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Minor earthquake, 2.95 mag has occurred near Brenas in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on June 8, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0328S, -66.3611WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) was reported 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Brenas in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. The 2.95-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:01:22 / 6:01 am (local time epicenter). Event id: pr2017157002. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2017157002. Exact location of earthquake, -66.3611° West, 19.0328° North, depth 57 km. Global time and date of event 06/06/17 / 2017-06-06 10:01:22 / June 6, 2017 @ 10:01 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 57 km (35 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Morovis, Ciales, Hatillo. Epicenter of the event was 68 km (43 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 62 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.95 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.3611° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0328° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km N of Brenas, 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 2017-06-06 10:01:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-08 01:21:25 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 134 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5807 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 259 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 pr2017157002 Id of event.
Event Code 2017157002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2017157002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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