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Minor earthquake, 3.02 mag has occurred near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on June 5, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.995S, -67.3925WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.02 (ml/mb) was reported 63 kilometers (39 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Monday. Exact location, longitude -67.3925° West, latitude 18.995° North, depth = 5 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Event id: pr2018155009. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018155009. The temblor was detected at 18:53:45 / 6:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/06/18 / 2018-06-04 22:53:45 / June 4, 2018 @ 10:53 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Quebradillas, Rincón, Moca (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 thirty-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-two 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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 63 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.02 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.3925° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.995° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km NNW of San Antonio, 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 2018-06-04 22:53:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-05 00:21:01 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 140 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5978 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 318 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 pr2018155009 Id of event.
Event Code 2018155009 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018155009, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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