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Minor earthquake: M2.83 quake has struck near Hatillo in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on September 2, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.8473S, -66.8851WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) strikes 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Hatillo in Puerto Rico on Saturday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/09/17 / 2017-09-02 07:16:41 / September 2, 2017 @ 7:16 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: pr2017245002. Event ids that are associated: pr2017245002. The temblor was reported at 03:16:41 / 3:16 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -66.8851 West, latitude 18.8473 North, depth = 10 km.

Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Morovis, Mayagüez, Jayuya.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 40 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.83 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8851° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8473° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km 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 2017-09-02 07:16:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-02 12:29:25 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 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7009 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 284 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 pr2017245002 Id of event.
Event Code 2017245002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2017245002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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