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Minor earthquake, 3.01 mag strikes near Luquillo in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on February 13, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9956S, -65.4236WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.01 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Luquillo in Puerto Rico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 60 km (37 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -65.4236 West, latitude 18.9956 North, depth = 60 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/02/19 / 2019-02-12 20:53:42 / February 12, 2019 @ 8:53 pm. Event id: pr2019043011. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019043011. The temblor was reported at 16:53:42 / 4:53 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fajardo, Culebra, Luquillo (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Luquillo (c. 8 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop).

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 75 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.01 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.4236° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9956° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km NNE of Luquillo, 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 2019-02-12 20:53:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-13 01:48:21 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 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.9535 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 322 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 pr2019043011 Id of event.
Event Code 2019043011 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019043011, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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