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Minor earthquake, 3.14 mag has occurred near Culebra in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.818S, -65.3436WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.14 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico. The 3.14-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:24:39 / 3:24 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -65.3436 West, latitude 18.818 North, depth = 88 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/07/18 / 2018-07-23 07:24:39 / July 23, 2018 @ 7:24 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 88 km (55 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: pr2018204007. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018204007.

Epicenter of the event was 64 km (40 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Río Grande (c. 13 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Canovanas (c. 8 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cruz Bay, Naguabo, Santa Barbara (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 57 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.14 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.3436° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.818° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km N 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 2018-07-23 07:24:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-23 12:17:27 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 152 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 0.8439 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 322 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 pr2018204007 Id of event.
Event Code 2018204007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018204007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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