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Minor earthquake, 2.97 mag has occurred near Rincon in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on March 13, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.571S, -67.6883WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Rincon in Puerto Rico. The epicenter was at a depth of 95 km (59 miles). Exact location of event, depth 95 km, -67.6883° West, 18.571° North. The temblor was reported at 04:04:47 / 4:04 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2019072013. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019072013. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/03/19 / 2019-03-13 09:04:47 / March 13, 2019 @ 9:04 am.

Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cabo Rojo, San Sebastián, Puerto Real (min 5000 pop).

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 52 km WNW of Rincon, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.97 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.6883° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.571° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52km WNW of Rincon, 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 2019-03-13 09:04:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-13 12:19:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 136 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 0.2803 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 326 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 pr2019072013 Id of event.
Event Code 2019072013 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019072013, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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