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Minor earthquake, 2.97 mag strikes near Isabela in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on June 26, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.055S, -66.8625WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) strikes 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico on Monday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 13 km (8 miles). The 2.97-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:04:06 / 11:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8625 West, latitude 19.055 North, depth = 13 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018177002. Id of event: pr2018177002. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/06/18 / 2018-06-26 03:04:06 / June 26, 2018 @ 3:04 am UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Moca, Aguadilla, Barceloneta (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 63 km NNE of Isabela, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.97 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8625° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.055° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km NNE of Isabela, 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 2018-06-26 03:04:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-26 08:42:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 136 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.638 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 290 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 pr2018177002 Id of event.
Event Code 2018177002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018177002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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