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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Utuado in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.2315S, -66.7255WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Utuado in Puerto Rico. The temblor was picked up at 19:24:51 / 7:24 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 143 km (89 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/09/15 / 2015-09-12 23:24:51 / September 12, 2015 @ 11:24 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -66.7255° West, 18.2315° North, depth 143 km. Event id: pr15255012. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15255012.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gurabo, Patillas, Trujillo Alto (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km SW of Utuado, 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 -66.7255° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2315° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 143 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km SW of Utuado, 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 23:24:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-13 00:11:06 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02245788 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 79.2 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 pr15255012 Id of event.
Event Code 15255012 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15255012, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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