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Minor earthquake, 2.84 mag strikes near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on November 24, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.8391S, -67.3573WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) strikes 47 kilometers (29 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Saturday. The 2.84-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:49:40 / 6:49 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 6 km (4 miles). Exact location of event, depth 6 km, -67.3573° West, 18.8391° North. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018328005. Unique identifier: pr2018328005. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/11/18 / 2018-11-24 10:49:40 / November 24, 2018 @ 10:49 am.

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Las Marías, Mayagüez, Hatillo (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.3573° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8391° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47km 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 2018-11-24 10:49:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-24 14:24:26 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 124 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 0.4457 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 326 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 pr2018328005 Id of event.
Event Code 2018328005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018328005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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