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Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag has occurred near Rincon in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on October 18, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.334S, -67.6558WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) strikes 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Rincon in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 101 km (63 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/10/18 / 2018-10-18 00:27:49 / October 18, 2018 @ 12:27 am. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018291003. Unique identifier: pr2018291003. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.6558 West, latitude 18.334 North, depth = 101 km. The temblor was reported at 19:27:49 / 7:27 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Quebradillas, Maricao, Las Marías. Earthquake epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from San Germán (c. 12 100 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days three 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: 42 km W of Rincon, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.6558° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.334° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 101 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km W 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 2018-10-18 00:27:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-18 09:45:39 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 127 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 0.5607 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 172 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 pr2018291003 Id of event.
Event Code 2018291003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018291003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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