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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 77 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.0016S, -65.367WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 54 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:14:30 / 9:14 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/05/19 / 2019-05-16 13:14:30 / May 16, 2019 @ 1:14 pm. Id of earthquake: pr2019136013. Event ids that are associated: pr2019136013. Exact location of event, depth 54 km, -65.367° West, 19.0016° North.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Culebra (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 five, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 77 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.367° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0016° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km 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 13:14:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-16 16:08:15 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 138 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 1.1817 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 329 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 pr2019136013 Id of event.
Event Code 2019136013 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019136013, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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