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Minor earthquake, 3.07 mag strikes near Hatillo in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 18, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9218S, -66.8093WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.07 (ml/mb) strikes 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Hatillo in Puerto Rico on Friday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 69 km (43 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/01/19 / 2019-01-18 11:38:01 / January 18, 2019 @ 11:38 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019018003. Id of event: pr2019018003. The temblor was detected at 07:38:01 / 7:38 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8093 West, latitude 18.9218 North, depth = 69 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 51 km (32 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Morovis, Toa Baja, Las Marías.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 48 km N of Hatillo, 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 -66.8093° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9218° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km N of Hatillo, 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 2019-01-18 11:38:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-18 17:43:26 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 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5778 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 269 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 pr2019018003 Id of event.
Event Code 2019018003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019018003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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