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Minor earthquake 3.3 mag, 77 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.1105S, -67.4401WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:05:36 / 9:05 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 76 km (47 miles). Id of earthquake: pr15255005. Event ids that are associated: pr15255005. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/09/15 / 2015-09-12 01:05:36 / September 12, 2015 @ 1:05 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.4401 West, latitude 19.1105 North, depth = 76 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aguadilla, Isabela. Epicenter of the event was 82 km (51 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 77 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.4401° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1105° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km 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 2015-09-12 01:05:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-12 04:30:39 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7231438 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 291.6 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 pr15255005 Id of event.
Event Code 15255005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15255005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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