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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Santa Isabel in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on March 29, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.0089S, -66.4756WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 106 km S of Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico (66 miles). The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:45:26 / 4:45 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us70008ien. Event ids that are associated: us70008ien. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 29/03/20 / 2020-03-29 20:45:26 / March 29, 2020 @ 8:45 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -66.4756 West, latitude 17.0089 North, depth = 10 km.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days fifty-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifty-nine and in the last 365 days one thousand, one hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 106 km S of Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.4756° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.0089° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 106km S of Santa Isabel, 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 2020-03-29 20:45:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-29 20:58:21 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 121 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.981 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 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 ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70008ien Id of event.
Event Code 70008ien An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008ien, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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