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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Culebra in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.5851S, -65.3125WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:30:50 / 5:30 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -65.3125° West, latitude 18.5851° North, depth = 58 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 58 km (36 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15206019. Id of event: pr15206019. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/07/15 / 2015-07-25 21:30:50 / July 25, 2015 @ 9:30 pm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Humacao (c. 20 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gurabo, Trujillo Alto, Tortola.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days fourty-three and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 31 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.3125° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.5851° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31km N of Culebra, 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 2015-07-25 21:30:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-26 01:50:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.27668111 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 248.4 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 pr15206019 Id of event.
Event Code 15206019 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15206019, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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