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Minor earthquake: M3.2 quake has struck near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.86S, -67.2248WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 42 kilometers (26 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Monday. Exact location of event, depth 52 km, -67.2248° West, 18.86° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/08/15 / 2015-08-17 05:33:06 / August 17, 2015 @ 5:33 am. Id of earthquake: pr15229003. Event ids that are associated: pr15229003. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:33:06 / 1:33 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 52 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Maricao, Mayagüez, Lares (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days twenty-nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and one and in the last 365 days three hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 42 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2248° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.86° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km NNW 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 2015-08-17 05:33:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-17 13:35:38 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 158 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.40424188 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 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 pr15229003 Id of event.
Event Code 15229003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15229003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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