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Minor earthquake, 3.07 mag strikes near Culebra in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on December 1, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9325S, -65.3615WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.07 (ml/mb) strikes 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25 km (16 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -65.3615° West, 18.9325° North, depth 25 km. Id of earthquake: pr2018335014. Event ids that are associated: pr2018335014. The temblor was picked up at 18:01:17 / 6:01 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 01/12/18 / 2018-12-01 22:01:17 / December 1, 2018 @ 10:01 pm UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Luquillo (c. 8 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Loíza (c. 4 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Loíza, Fajardo, Luquillo. Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 69 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.07 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.3615° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9325° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km N of Culebra, 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 2018-12-01 22:01:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-01 22:33:30 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 145 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 0.9285 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 302 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 pr2018335014 Id of event.
Event Code 2018335014 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018335014, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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