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Minor earthquake, 2.97 mag has occurred near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on November 5, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0176S, -67.4848WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) strikes 71 kilometers (44 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Sunday. The epicenter was at a depth of 21 km (13 miles). Exact location, longitude -67.4848° West, latitude 19.0176° North, depth = 21 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/11/18 / 2018-11-04 21:07:02 / November 4, 2018 @ 9:07 pm. Id of earthquake: pr2018308012. Event ids that are associated: pr2018308012. The temblor was detected at 17:07:02 / 5:07 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguada, Isabela, Aguadilla (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 71 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.97 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.4848° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0176° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71km NW of San Antonio, 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 2018-11-04 21:07:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-05 01:03:11 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 136 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6332 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 303 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 pr2018308012 Id of event.
Event Code 2018308012 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018308012, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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