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Minor earthquake, 3.14 mag has occurred near Rincon in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on February 17, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.1323S, -67.7716WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.14 (ml/mb) was reported 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Rincon in Puerto Rico on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 136 km (85 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -67.7716° West, 18.1323° North, depth 136 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/02/18 / 2018-02-17 08:00:31 / February 17, 2018 @ 8:00 am. The temblor was reported at 03:00:31 / 3:00 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018048004. Id of event: pr2018048004.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from San Germán (c. 12 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Cabo Rojo (c. 10 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Germán, Lajas, Moca (min 5000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 59 km WSW of Rincon, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.14 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.7716° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.1323° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 136 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59km WSW of Rincon, 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 2018-02-17 08:00:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-17 12:48:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 152 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6739 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 203 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 pr2018048004 Id of event.
Event Code 2018048004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018048004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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