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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 44 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.0809S, -67.6067WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Puerto Real in Puerto Rico on Friday. Exact location, longitude -67.6067° West, latitude 18.0809° North, depth = 100 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15198033. Id of event: pr15198033. The temblor was picked up at 14:56:12 / 2:56 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 100 km (62 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 17/07/15 / 2015-07-17 19:56:12 / July 17, 2015 @ 7:56 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from San Germán (c. 12 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Isabela, Guánica, San Sebastián (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days twenty-eight, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-five 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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: 44 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.6067° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0809° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 100 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km W of Puerto Real, 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 19:56:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-18 09:06:37 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 138 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.32519013 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 277.2 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 pr15198033 Id of event.
Event Code 15198033 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15198033, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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