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Minor earthquake 3.14 mag, 76 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.9946S, -65.378WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.14 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico. Global time and date of event 16/05/19 / 2019-05-16 13:07:44 / May 16, 2019 @ 1:07 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 09:07:44 / 9:07 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 59 km (37 miles). Exact location, longitude -65.378° West, latitude 18.9946° North, depth = 59 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019136010. Unique identifier: pr2019136010.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fajardo, Luquillo, Culebra (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 80 km (50 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Luquillo (c. 8 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop).

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

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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. 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: 76 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 -65.378° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9946° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76km 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 2019-05-16 13:07:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-16 15:28:21 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.9739 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 314 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 pr2019136010 Id of event.
Event Code 2019136010 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019136010, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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