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Minor earthquake, 3.02 mag has occurred near Vieques in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 22, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9921S, -65.542WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.02 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Vieques in Puerto Rico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 43 km (27 miles). Unique identifier: pr2019022008. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019022008. The temblor was picked up at 06:37:50 / 6:37 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 43 km, -65.542° West, 18.9921° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/01/19 / 2019-01-22 10:37:50 / January 22, 2019 @ 10:37 am.

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Río Grande (c. 13 500 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Canovanas (c. 8 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Luquillo (c. 8 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from San Isidro (c. 8 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Canovanas, Santa Barbara, San Isidro (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-six, in the past 30 days fifty-one and in the last 365 days four hundred and seventy-six 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 69 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.02 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.542° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9921° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km NNE of Vieques, 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 2019-01-22 10:37:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-22 13:44:04 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 140 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.9037 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 318 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 pr2019022008 Id of event.
Event Code 2019022008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019022008, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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