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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Brenas in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.5757S, -66.3004WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 122 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico (76 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 69 km (43 miles). Global time and date of event 19/08/15 / 2015-08-19 09:52:00 / August 19, 2015 @ 9:52 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.3004 West, latitude 19.5757 North, depth = 69 km. Id of earthquake: pr15231006. Event ids that are associated: pr15231006. The temblor was reported at 05:52:00 / 5:52 am (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fourty-five, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixty-nine and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 122 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.3004° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.5757° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 122km N of Brenas, 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 2015-08-19 09:52:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-19 13:11:26 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 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.29447232 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 298.8 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 pr15231006 Id of event.
Event Code 15231006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15231006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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