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Minor earthquake: M2.84 quake has struck near Hatillo in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on July 21, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.6351S, -66.7668WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) strikes 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Hatillo in Puerto Rico on Thursday. Exact location, longitude -66.7668° West, latitude 18.6351° North, depth = 12 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2017202000. Id of event: pr2017202000. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.84-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:56:44 / 9:56 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 21/07/17 / 2017-07-21 01:56:44 / July 21, 2017 @ 1:56 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puerto Real, Aibonito, Guaynabo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 72 km (45 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days fourty-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-one 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. 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: 17 km NNE of Hatillo, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7668° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.6351° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km NNE 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 2017-07-21 01:56:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-21 05:32:10 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 124 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 0.383 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 215 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 pr2017202000 Id of event.
Event Code 2017202000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2017202000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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