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Minor earthquake, 3.13 mag has occurred near Esperanza in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on April 26, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.041S, -65.4705WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.13 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Esperanza in Puerto Rico. Id of earthquake: pr2018116003. Event ids that are associated: pr2018116003. The temblor was detected at 09:04:45 / 9:04 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 15 km (9 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 26/04/18 / 2018-04-26 13:04:45 / April 26, 2018 @ 1:04 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -65.4705° West, latitude 18.041° North, depth = 15 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cruz Bay, Guaynabo, Cidra (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-one 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 S of Esperanza, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.13 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.4705° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.041° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km S of Esperanza, 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 2018-04-26 13:04:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-26 18:14:11 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 151 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3916 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 329 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 pr2018116003 Id of event.
Event Code 2018116003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018116003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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