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Minor earthquake, 2.98 mag strikes near Rincon in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on August 5, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.4576S, -67.768WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) strikes 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Rincon in Puerto Rico on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 90 km (56 miles). Unique identifier: pr2018216016. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018216016. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/08/18 / 2018-08-04 19:53:20 / August 4, 2018 @ 7:53 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -67.768° West, latitude 18.4576° North, depth = 90 km. The temblor was detected at 14:53:20 / 2:53 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Isabela, Cabo Rojo, Hormigueros. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 68 km (43 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 56 km WNW of Rincon, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.98 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.768° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.4576° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 90 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km WNW 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 2018-08-04 19:53:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-04 23:44:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 137 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6569 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 323 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 pr2018216016 Id of event.
Event Code 2018216016 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018216016, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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