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Minor earthquake, 2.84 mag was detected near Rincon in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on July 28, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.4391S, -67.3631WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Rincon in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, depth 100 km, -67.3631° West, 18.4391° North. The 2.84-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:41:26 / 8:41 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 100 km (62 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018209000. Unique identifier: pr2018209000. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/07/18 / 2018-07-28 00:41:26 / July 28, 2018 @ 12:41 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guayanilla, Adjuntas, Adjuntas (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop).

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 16 km NW of Rincon, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.3631° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.4391° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 100 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km NW of Rincon, 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 2018-07-28 00:41:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-28 04:39:37 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 124 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2535 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 168 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 pr2018209000 Id of event.
Event Code 2018209000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018209000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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