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


Earthquake location 18.9685S, -67.2762WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 55 kilometers (34 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. The temblor was picked up at 02:57:56 / 2:57 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/10/16 / 2016-10-25 06:57:56 / October 25, 2016 @ 6:57 am. Exact location of event, depth 31 km, -67.2762° West, 18.9685° North. All ids that are associated to the event: pr16299002. Unique identifier: pr16299002. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 31 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Añasco, San Sebastián, Hatillo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 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. 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: 55 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 -67.2762° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9685° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55km 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 2016-10-25 06:57:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-25 07:42:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 ,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.52102286 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 216 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 pr16299002 Id of event.
Event Code 16299002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16299002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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