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Minor earthquake, 3.43 mag was detected near Culebra in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.5171S, -65.1488WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.43 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico. The temblor was detected at 08:52:22 / 8:52 am (local time epicenter). Event id: pr2018010002. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018010002. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/01/18 / 2018-01-10 12:52:22 / January 10, 2018 @ 12:52 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 73 km (45 miles). Exact location of event, depth 73 km, -65.1488° West, 18.5171° North.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Humacao, Santa Barbara, Canovanas. Epicenter of the earthquake was 57 km (36 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Humacao (c. 20 400 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Río Grande (c. 13 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days three hundred and ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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. 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: 28 km NE of Culebra, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.43 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.1488° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.5171° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km NE of Culebra, 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 2018-01-10 12:52:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-10 16:10:01 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 181 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.9576 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 336 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 pr2018010002 Id of event.
Event Code 2018010002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018010002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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