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Minor earthquake, 2.89 mag strikes near Mona Passage, Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on October 18, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.1373S, -67.2511WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, Mona Passage, Puerto Rico kilometers (0 miles) from Mona Passage, Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, longitude -67.2511 West, latitude 18.1373 North, depth = 21 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/10/18 / 2018-10-18 01:53:13 / October 18, 2018 @ 1:53 am. The temblor was detected at 01:53:13 / 1:53 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018291000. Unique identifier: pr2018291000. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 21 km (13 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 69 km (43 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Florida, Estancias de Florida, Jayuya (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: Mona Passage, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.89 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2511° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.1373° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Mona Passage, 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 01:53:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-18 02:14:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1329 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 185 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 pr2018291000 Id of event.
Event Code 2018291000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018291000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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