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UTC time: 1918-10-11 14:14:42: ISC event: 913306: USGS-ANSSComCat: Local date: October 11, 1918 (): Local time: 10:14:42 [1]: Magnitude: 7.1 M w [1]: Depth: 15 km (9.3 mi) [1] Epicenter: 1]: Type: Unknown: Areas affected: Puerto Rico: Total damage: $4–29 million USD [2] [3]: Max. intensity: MMI IX (Violent) [3]: Tsunami: Yes: Casualties: 76–118 [2] [4]: The 1918 San Fermín earthquake, [5 ...
Felt throughout Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and the US and British Islands. It is colloquially known as the 2010 Moca earthquake. It caused minor damage in the western and northwestern regions of Puerto Rico, and a minor landslide that affected a portion of PR-111. It is the largest Puerto Rican earthquake to have occurred on land in ...
In Puerto Rico, the earthquake heavily damaged portions of the city wall of San Juan, which prompted the demolition of its southeastern portion afterwards. [9] Fajardo , the largest town in Puerto Rico within the direct vicinity of the earthquake, completely lost its church and several of its civic structures. [ 10 ]
The warning was issued Saturday evening for the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands after a magnitude 7.6 earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km in the Caribbean Sea around 6: ...
That led to an alert being issued warning of a potential tsunami for the Cayman Islands as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. That advisory has since been cleared.
A Tsunami Advisory was issued on Saturday evening following 7.6 magnitude earthquake, which occurred southwest of the Cayman Islands in the Northwest Pacific. ... Puerto Rico - A Tsunami Advisory ...
The Passage was the site of a devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit western Puerto Rico in 1918. [1] It is the site of frequent small earthquakes. The passage is underlain by a seismically active rift zone that overprints an older, partly eroded tilted-block structure. [1]
The center later canceled the advisory for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, but said advisories were still in place for Cuba – where tsunami waves of between 1 and 3 meters above tide level ...