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Minor earthquake, 3.07 mag strikes near Esperanza in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on December 29, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.967S, -65.2293WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.07 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Esperanza in Puerto Rico. The 3.07-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:26:16 / 3:26 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018363005. Id of event: pr2018363005. Exact location, longitude -65.2293° West, latitude 17.967° North, depth = 22 km. Global time and date of event 29/12/18 / 2018-12-29 07:26:16 / December 29, 2018 @ 7:26 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 22 km (14 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Juncos, Río Grande, Las Piedras. Epicenter of the event was 58 km (36 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Humacao (c. 20 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Río Grande (c. 13 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 29 km ESE of Esperanza, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.07 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.2293° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.967° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km ESE of Esperanza, 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 2018-12-29 07:26:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-29 13:10:25 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6438 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 342 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 pr2018363005 Id of event.
Event Code 2018363005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018363005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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