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Minor earthquake: M3.06 quake has struck near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on June 15, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.8025S, -67.2368WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.06 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. The temblor was picked up at 21:25:20 / 9:25 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2018166000. Event ids that are associated: pr2018166000. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.2368 West, latitude 18.8025 North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/06/18 / 2018-06-15 01:25:20 / June 15, 2018 @ 1:25 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hormigueros, Maricao, Lares. Event epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 37 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.06 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2368° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8025° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km 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 2018-06-15 01:25:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-15 02:33:21 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 144 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3578 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 306 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 pr2018166000 Id of event.
Event Code 2018166000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018166000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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