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Minor earthquake: M2.98 quake has struck near Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on June 25, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.097S, -66.5011WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 23 km (14 miles). The temblor was detected at 14:08:47 / 2:08 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2017175012. Unique identifier: pr2017175012. Exact location, longitude -66.5011° West, latitude 19.097° North, depth = 23 km. Global time and date of event 24/06/17 / 2017-06-24 18:08:47 / June 24, 2017 @ 6:08 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ingenio, Vega Alta, Camuy (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Dorado (c. 13 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 70 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.98 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.5011° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.097° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, 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 2017-06-24 18:08:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-25 03:17:41 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 137 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7918 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 251 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 pr2017175012 Id of event.
Event Code 2017175012 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2017175012, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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