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Minor earthquake, 2.88 mag has occurred near Arecibo in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on October 15, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0496S, -66.5903WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Arecibo in Puerto Rico. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/10/18 / 2018-10-15 14:33:35 / October 15, 2018 @ 2:33 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 66 km (41 miles). The temblor was detected at 10:33:35 / 10:33 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.5903 West, latitude 19.0496 North, depth = 66 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018288007. Unique identifier: pr2018288007.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Florida, Isabela, Estancias de Florida. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 66 km (41 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Dorado (c. 13 100 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 65 km NNE of Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.5903° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0496° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km 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 2018-10-15 14:33:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-15 16:43:39 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7218 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 333 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 pr2018288007 Id of event.
Event Code 2018288007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018288007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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