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Minor earthquake, 3.23 mag was detected near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.9353S, -67.4065WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.23 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Exact location, longitude -67.4065° West, latitude 18.9353° North, depth = 5 km. The 3.23-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:19:14 / 3:19 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018122004. Unique identifier: pr2018122004. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/05/18 / 2018-05-02 07:19:14 / May 2, 2018 @ 7:19 am UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Sebastián, Hatillo, Añasco (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 58 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.23 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.4065° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9353° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km 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 2018-05-02 07:19:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-02 08:15:00 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 161 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5532 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 315 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 pr2018122004 Id of event.
Event Code 2018122004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018122004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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