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Minor earthquake, 2.82 mag was detected near Levittown in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on September 1, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.4428S, -66.1596WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Levittown in Puerto Rico. Event id: pr2019244009. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019244009. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 87 km (54 miles). The 2.82-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:37:38 / 3:37 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -66.1596° West, 18.4428° North, depth 87 km. Global time and date of event 01/09/19 / 2019-09-01 07:37:38 / September 1, 2019 @ 7:37 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Peñuelas, Camuy, Hatillo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 6 km (4 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 2 km ESE of Levittown, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.82 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.1596° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.4428° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km ESE of Levittown, 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 2019-09-01 07:37:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-01 08:04:52 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 122 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1539 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 235 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 pr2019244009 Id of event.
Event Code 2019244009 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019244009, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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