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Minor earthquake, 2.82 mag has occurred near Stella in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on April 25, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.2071S, -67.6541WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) strikes 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Stella in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. The epicenter was at a depth of 98 km (61 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018115006. Unique identifier: pr2018115006. The 2.82-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:07:10 / 9:07 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -67.6541° West, latitude 18.2071° North, depth = 98 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/04/18 / 2018-04-25 14:07:10 / April 25, 2018 @ 2:07 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sabana Grande, Isabela, San Sebastián (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 54 km (34 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from San Germán (c. 12 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 44 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.82 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.6541° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2071° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km WSW of Stella, 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 2018-04-25 14:07:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-25 18:34:38 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 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5803 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 178 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 pr2018115006 Id of event.
Event Code 2018115006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018115006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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