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Minor earthquake 2.98 mag, 53 km WSW of Rincon, Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on March 14, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.2363S, -67.7413WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Rincon in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, depth 118 km, -67.7413° West, 18.2363° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/03/19 / 2019-03-14 03:58:01 / March 14, 2019 @ 3:58 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019073006. Id of event: pr2019073006. The 2.98-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:58:01 / 10:58 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 118 km (73 miles).

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Germán, Lajas, Moca (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from San Germán (c. 12 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Cabo Rojo (c. 10 800 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 53 km WSW of Rincon, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.98 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.7413° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2363° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 118 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km WSW 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 2019-03-14 03:58:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-14 08:38:06 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 137 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 0.6583 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 332 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 pr2019073006 Id of event.
Event Code 2019073006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019073006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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