Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Small World Earthquakes

Minor earthquake, 2.97 mag strikes near Vieques in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on June 25, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.6233S, -65.7845WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) strikes 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Vieques in Puerto Rico on Thursday. The 2.97-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:27:21 / 11:27 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -65.7845 West, latitude 18.6233 North, depth = 19 km. Unique identifier: pr2017174001. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2017174001. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19 km (12 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 23/06/17 / 2017-06-23 03:27:21 / June 23, 2017 @ 3:27 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arroyo, Manatí, Orocovis. Earthquake epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

Did you feel it?

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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 22 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2017 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.97 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.7845° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.6233° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km NNE 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 2017-06-23 03:27:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-25 03:36:16 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 136 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3589 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 212 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 pr2017174001 Id of event.
Event Code 2017174001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2017174001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information

Information and facts about all earthquakes today. Earthquake news and analysis on current events, Plate Tectonics, Seismometers, quake prediction, environment, Tsunamis, Seismologists, Prediction, live now, videos, information, pictures and much more. Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today.

© 2024 Earthquakes today - Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today