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Minor earthquake, 3.16 mag was detected near Jayuya in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.2465S, -66.5425WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.16 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Jayuya in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, longitude -66.5425 West, latitude 18.2465 North, depth = 127 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 127 km (79 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: pr2018047004. Event ids that are associated: pr2018047004. The temblor was picked up at 18:35:28 / 6:35 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/02/18 / 2018-02-16 22:35:28 / February 16, 2018 @ 10:35 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Río Grande, Humacao, Rincón. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop).

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

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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: 6 km ENE of Jayuya, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.16 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.5425° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2465° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 127 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km ENE of Jayuya, 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 2018-02-16 22:35:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-16 23:17:27 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 154 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 0.1755 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 255 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 pr2018047004 Id of event.
Event Code 2018047004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018047004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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