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Minor earthquake, 3.02 mag strikes near Stella in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.211S, -67.6735WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.02 (ml/mb) was reported 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Stella in Puerto Rico on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 105 km (65 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 07:38:37 / 7:38 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -67.6735 West, latitude 18.211 North, depth = 105 km. Unique identifier: pr2018300009. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018300009. Global time and date of event 27/10/18 / 2018-10-27 12:38:37 / October 27, 2018 @ 12:38 pm UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from San Germán (c. 12 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sabana Grande, Isabela, San Sebastián. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 46 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.02 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.6735° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.211° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 105 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km WSW of Stella, 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 2018-10-27 12:38:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-27 15:49:06 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 140 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2605 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 295 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 pr2018300009 Id of event.
Event Code 2018300009 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018300009, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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