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Minor earthquake, 3.04 mag was detected near San Juan in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on November 14, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.5583S, -66.139WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.04 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from San Juan in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/11/17 / 2017-11-14 16:49:19 / November 14, 2017 @ 4:49 pm. The 3.04-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:49:19 / 12:49 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 81 km (50 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -66.139° West, latitude 18.5583° North, depth = 81 km. Event id: pr2017318001. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2017318001.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Adjuntas, Adjuntas, Camuy. The epicenter was 11 km (7 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km NNW of San Juan, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.04 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.139° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.5583° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km NNW of San Juan, 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 2017-11-14 16:49:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-14 21:08:50 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 142 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6504 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 316 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 pr2017318001 Id of event.
Event Code 2017318001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2017318001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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