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


Earthquake location 18.878S, -66.8821WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Hatillo in Puerto Rico. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/11/15 / 2015-11-26 09:12:54 / November 26, 2015 @ 9:12 am. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:12:54 / 5:12 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -66.8821° West, latitude 18.878° North, depth = 40 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr15330007. Unique identifier: pr15330007. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 40 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 80 km (50 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mayagüez, Dorado, Jayuya (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 43 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8821° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.878° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43km N of Hatillo, 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 2015-11-26 09:12:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-26 11:35:06 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.46263237 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 270 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 pr15330007 Id of event.
Event Code 15330007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15330007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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