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Minor earthquake, 3.02 mag was detected near Luquillo in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on May 8, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.84S, -65.4593WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.02 (ml/mb) was reported 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Luquillo in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. The temblor was reported at 05:40:05 / 5:40 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -65.4593 West, latitude 18.84 North, depth = 32 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 32 km (20 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019128009. Unique identifier: pr2019128009. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/05/19 / 2019-05-08 09:40:05 / May 8, 2019 @ 9:40 am.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Charlotte Amalie, Isabel Segunda, Naguabo. The epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Río Grande (c. 13 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 58 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.02 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.4593° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.84° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km 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 2019-05-08 09:40:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-08 15:54:50 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7993 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 312 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 pr2019128009 Id of event.
Event Code 2019128009 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019128009, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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