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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.8971S, -67.4014WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: pr16029002. Ids that are associated to the event: us20004vjy, pr16029002. Exact location of earthquake, -67.4014° West, 18.8971° North, depth 11 km. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:10:24 / 2:10 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/01/16 / 2016-01-29 18:10:24 / January 29, 2016 @ 6:10 pm.

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hatillo, San Sebastián, Camuy (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 42 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.4014° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8971° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km 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 2016-01-29 18:10:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-29 18:31:05 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 148 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 ,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.50754814 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 212.4 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 pr16029002 Id of event.
Event Code 16029002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004vjy,pr16029002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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