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Minor earthquake, 3.13 mag was detected near Arecibo in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 31, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.5481S, -66.7361WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.13 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Arecibo in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. Unique identifier: pr2018031003. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018031003. Exact location, longitude -66.7361° West, latitude 18.5481° North, depth = 76 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 31/01/18 / 2018-01-31 06:04:09 / January 31, 2018 @ 6:04 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 02:04:09 / 2:04 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 76 km (47 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Trujillo Alto, Salinas, Coco.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-two 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km NNW of Arecibo, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.13 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7361° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.5481° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km NNW 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 2018-01-31 06:04:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-31 07:54:10 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 151 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3836 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 212 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 pr2018031003 Id of event.
Event Code 2018031003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018031003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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