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Minor earthquake, 2.94 mag has occurred near Arecibo in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 15, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0561S, -66.5863WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) was reported 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Arecibo in Puerto Rico on Sunday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/01/18 / 2018-01-14 19:23:24 / January 14, 2018 @ 7:23 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018014003. Unique identifier: pr2018014003. The 2.94-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:23:24 / 3:23 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 63 km (39 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -66.5863 West, latitude 19.0561 North, depth = 63 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ingenio, Florida, Isabela (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Dorado (c. 13 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 66 km NNE of Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.94 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.5863° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0561° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km NNE of Arecibo, 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 2018-01-14 19:23:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-15 00:16:39 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 133 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 0.729 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 330 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 pr2018014003 Id of event.
Event Code 2018014003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018014003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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