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Minor earthquake, 3.12 mag strikes near Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.091S, -66.5123WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.12 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/09/17 / 2017-09-13 02:17:52 / September 13, 2017 @ 2:17 am. Exact location of event, depth 21 km, -66.5123° West, 19.091° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 21 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2017256000. Id of event: pr2017256000. The 3.12-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:17:52 / 10:17 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Campanilla, Levittown, Ingenio. Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 69 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.12 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.5123° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.091° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, 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 2017-09-13 02:17:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-13 02:40:55 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 150 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6607 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 269 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 pr2017256000 Id of event.
Event Code 2017256000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2017256000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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