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Minor earthquake 3.01 mag, 56 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.8196S, -65.4665WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.01 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Luquillo in Puerto Rico. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019089000. Id of event: pr2019089000. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/03/19 / 2019-03-30 00:25:10 / March 30, 2019 @ 12:25 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.4665 West, latitude 18.8196 North, depth = 23 km. The temblor was detected at 20:25:10 / 8:25 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Santiago, San Juan, Charlotte Amalie.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every 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-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 56 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.01 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.4665° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8196° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km NNE of Luquillo, 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 2019-03-30 00:25:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-30 01:04:08 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 139 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.778 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 319 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 pr2019089000 Id of event.
Event Code 2019089000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019089000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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