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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Rincon in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.6025S, -67.4944WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Rincon in Puerto Rico. All ids that are associated to the event: pr17072001. Unique identifier: pr17072001. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -67.4944° West, latitude 18.6025° North, depth = 5 km. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:11:23 / 10:11 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/03/17 / 2017-03-13 02:11:23 / March 13, 2017 @ 2:11 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lajas, San Germán, Lares. Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from San Germán (c. 12 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 38 km NW of Rincon, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.4944° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.6025° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km NW of Rincon, 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 2017-03-13 02:11:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-13 05:07:28 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2173923 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 190.8 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 pr17072001 Id of event.
Event Code 17072001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr17072001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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