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Minor earthquake, 2.83 mag was detected near Puerto Rico region

Posted by admin on December 6, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.105S, -67.2771WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) strikes Puerto Rico region kilometers (0 miles) from Puerto Rico region on Thursday. Exact location of event, longitude -67.2771 West, latitude 19.105 North, depth = 4 km. Id of earthquake: pr2018340005. Event ids that are associated: pr2018340005. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/12/18 / 2018-12-06 09:38:50 / December 6, 2018 @ 9:38 am UTC/GMT. The 2.83-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:38:50 / 9:38 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aguadilla, Isabela (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Puerto Rico region. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.83 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2771° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.105° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Puerto Rico region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-06 09:38:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-06 11:42:38 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 123 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 0.6587 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 223 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 pr2018340005 Id of event.
Event Code 2018340005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018340005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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