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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.0351S, -67.6437WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 83 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico (52 miles) on Thursday. All ids that are associated to the event: pr15198002. Unique identifier: pr15198002. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:21:16 / 7:21 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 17/07/15 / 2015-07-17 00:21:16 / July 17, 2015 @ 12:21 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24 km (15 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -67.6437 West, latitude 19.0351 North, depth = 24 km.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 83 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.6437° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0351° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83km NW of San Antonio, 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 2015-07-17 00:21:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-17 08:55:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 148 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.75727978 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 252 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 pr15198002 Id of event.
Event Code 15198002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15198002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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