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Minor earthquake: M3.06 quake has struck near Isabela in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on September 22, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1108S, -67.1135WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.06 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/09/18 / 2018-09-22 00:15:57 / September 22, 2018 @ 12:15 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.06-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:15:57 / 8:15 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -67.1135° West, latitude 19.1108° North, depth = 7 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018265000. Unique identifier: pr2018265000.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aguadilla, Hatillo, Camuy. Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Camuy (c. 4 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every 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.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 68 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.06 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.1135° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1108° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68km N 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 2018-09-22 00:15:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-22 04:48:50 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 144 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6433 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 307 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 pr2018265000 Id of event.
Event Code 2018265000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018265000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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