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Minor earthquake, 2.93 mag was detected near Rincon in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on March 23, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.2573S, -67.8523WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Rincon in Puerto Rico. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8 km (5 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/03/18 / 2018-03-23 10:06:44 / March 23, 2018 @ 10:06 am. The temblor was detected at 05:06:44 / 5:06 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018082007. Id of event: pr2018082007. Exact location of event, depth 8 km, -67.8523° West, 18.2573° North.

The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Cabo Rojo (c. 10 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hormigueros, Cabo Rojo, Aguadilla (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 ten, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 64 km W of Rincon, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.93 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.8523° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2573° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km W 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 2018-03-23 10:06:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-23 15:44:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 132 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3942 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 156 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 pr2018082007 Id of event.
Event Code 2018082007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018082007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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