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Minor earthquake, 2.94 mag was detected near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on September 8, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0023S, -67.1965WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. The temblor was detected at 03:40:59 / 3:40 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 60 km (37 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/09/18 / 2018-09-08 07:40:59 / September 8, 2018 @ 7:40 am. Unique identifier: pr2018251007. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018251007. Exact location of earthquake, -67.1965° West, 19.0023° North, depth 60 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arecibo, San Sebastián, Rincón (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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: 57 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.94 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.1965° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0023° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km N 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 2018-09-08 07:40:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-08 12:52:47 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 133 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.791 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 315 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 pr2018251007 Id of event.
Event Code 2018251007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018251007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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