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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Angochi in Aruba

Posted by admin on March 10, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.2854S, -69.9299WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Angochi in Aruba. The temblor was reported at 11:58:20 / 11:58 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -69.9299° West, 12.2854° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/03/19 / 2019-03-09 16:28:20 / March 9, 2019 @ 4:28 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000jdca. Id of event: us1000jdca.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Aruba (c. 72 000 pop), Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Punto Fijo (c. 131 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Punta Cardón (c. 58 900 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Babijn (c. 40 600 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Oranjestad (c. 30 000 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Angochi (c. 29 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cardón, Punto Fijo, Arasji.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 25 km S of Angochi, Aruba.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.9299° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.2854° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km S of Angochi, Aruba Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-09 16:28:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-10 22:42:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -270 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 148 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.956 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000jdca Id of event.
Event Code 1000jdca An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jdca, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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