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Minor earthquake, 3.01 mag has occurred near Puerto Rico region

Posted by admin on January 18, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.8805S, -67.2665WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.01 (ml/mb) was reported Puerto Rico region kilometers (0 miles) from Puerto Rico region on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019018004. Unique identifier: pr2019018004. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/01/19 / 2019-01-18 11:47:54 / January 18, 2019 @ 11:47 am. The temblor was detected at 11:47:54 / 11:47 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 8 km, -67.2665° West, 18.8805° North.

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lares, Mayagüez, Las Marías (min 5000 pop).

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

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.01 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2665° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8805° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8 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 2019-01-18 11:47:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-18 17:48:07 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 139 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4412 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 230 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 pr2019018004 Id of event.
Event Code 2019018004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019018004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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