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Minor earthquake, 2.94 mag strikes near Culebra in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.6451S, -65.4021WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018356018. Id of event: pr2018356018. The temblor was picked up at 13:00:40 / 1:00 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 84 km, -65.4021° West, 18.6451° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/12/18 / 2018-12-22 17:00:40 / December 22, 2018 @ 5:00 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 84 km (52 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Humacao (c. 20 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Lorenzo, San Juan, Gurabo.

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 39 km NNW of Culebra, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.94 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.4021° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.6451° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km NNW 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 2018-12-22 17:00:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-22 19:18:32 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 133 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6728 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 323 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 pr2018356018 Id of event.
Event Code 2018356018 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018356018, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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