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Minor earthquake 3.29 mag, 75 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.9946S, -65.4266WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.29 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Luquillo in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.4266 West, latitude 18.9946 North, depth = 28 km. The 3.29-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:47:32 / 10:47 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018032002. Id of event: pr2018032002. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 28 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/02/18 / 2018-02-01 14:47:32 / February 1, 2018 @ 2:47 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Río Grande, Loíza, Fajardo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 78 km (49 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Río Grande (c. 13 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Luquillo (c. 8 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Loíza (c. 4 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days four hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 75 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.29 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.4266° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9946° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km NNE of Luquillo, 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 2018-02-01 14:47:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-01 15:58:33 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 167 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.9495 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 313 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 pr2018032002 Id of event.
Event Code 2018032002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018032002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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