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Minor earthquake 3.66 mag, 49 km NW of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.6761S, -67.5051WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.66 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Aguadilla in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.5051 West, latitude 18.6761 North, depth = 84 km. The temblor was detected at 07:27:30 / 7:27 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 84 km (52 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 15/07/18 / 2018-07-15 12:27:30 / July 15, 2018 @ 12:27 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018196006, us2000g5lm. Id of event: pr2018196006.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lajas, San Germán, Lares (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 65 km (41 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from San Germán (c. 12 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 ten, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days three hundred and ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.66 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.5051° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.6761° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km NW of Aguadilla, 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 2018-07-15 12:27:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-15 12:52:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 206 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4457 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 187 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 pr2018196006 Id of event.
Event Code 2018196006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018196006,us2000g5lm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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