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Minor earthquake, 3.05 mag strikes near Esperanza in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on November 10, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.0055S, -65.4588WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.05 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Esperanza in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, -65.4588° West, 18.0055° North, depth 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019314016. Id of event: pr2019314016. The temblor was detected at 14:39:24 / 2:39 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 10/11/19 / 2019-11-10 18:39:24 / November 10, 2019 @ 6:39 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cidra, Cayey, Aguas Buenas (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 67 km (42 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.05 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.4588° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0055° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km S of Esperanza, 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 2019-11-10 18:39:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-10 21:21:29 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 143 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4133 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 331 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 pr2019314016 Id of event.
Event Code 2019314016 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019314016, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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