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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Culebra in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.8859S, -65.2173WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, -65.2173° West, 18.8859° North, depth 38 km. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:48:06 / 7:48 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/08/15 / 2015-08-26 11:48:06 / August 26, 2015 @ 11:48 am. Event id: pr15238007. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15238007. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 38 km (24 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tortola, Road Town, Luquillo (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Luquillo (c. 8 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days thirty-nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and twelve and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 65 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.2173° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8859° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km 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 2015-08-26 11:48:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-26 18:26:13 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 168 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.57851504 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 223.2 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 pr15238007 Id of event.
Event Code 15238007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15238007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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