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Minor earthquake 2.81 mag, 67 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on July 12, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0743S, -66.1103WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from San Juan in Puerto Rico. Global time and date of event 12/07/18 / 2018-07-12 09:46:32 / July 12, 2018 @ 9:46 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018193005. Id of event: pr2018193005. The temblor was detected at 05:46:32 / 5:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 52 km, -66.1103° West, 19.0743° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 52 km (32 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 68 km (42 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Cataño (c. 28 100 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vega Alta, Vega Baja, Loíza (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 67 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.81 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.1103° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0743° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km N of San Juan, 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 2018-07-12 09:46:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-12 12:00:47 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 121 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 3 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.9715 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 338 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 pr2018193005 Id of event.
Event Code 2018193005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018193005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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