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Minor earthquake, 2.89 mag has occurred near Arecibo in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on October 6, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9978S, -66.6045WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Arecibo in Puerto Rico. Unique identifier: pr2018278011. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018278011. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 47 km (29 miles). Exact location of event, depth 47 km, -66.6045° West, 18.9978° North. The 2.89-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:11:37 / 5:11 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/10/18 / 2018-10-05 21:11:37 / October 5, 2018 @ 9:11 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Candelaria Arenas, Levittown, Ciales. Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-nine 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. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 59 km NNE of Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.89 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.6045° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9978° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59km NNE of Arecibo, 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 2018-10-05 21:11:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-06 00:58:34 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 128 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 0.6681 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 311 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 pr2018278011 Id of event.
Event Code 2018278011 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018278011, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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