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Minor earthquake, 2.82 mag strikes near Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on March 13, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.8278S, -66.5166WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) strikes 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/03/18 / 2018-03-13 12:17:04 / March 13, 2018 @ 12:17 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 99 km (62 miles). The temblor was detected at 08:17:04 / 8:17 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -66.5166° West, 18.8278° North, depth 99 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018072005. Id of event: pr2018072005.

Epicenter of the event was 59 km (37 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Carolina, Adjuntas, Aguas Buenas. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 40 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.82 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.5166° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8278° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, 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 2018-03-13 12:17:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-13 17:50:40 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 122 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 3 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7555 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1 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 pr2018072005 Id of event.
Event Code 2018072005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018072005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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