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Earthquake: M 3.1 quake strikes near Jobos in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.2031S, -66.1337WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (mg/mb) has striked on Sunday, 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Jobos in Puerto Rico. The temblor was reported at 08:56:12 / 8:56 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 25 km (16 miles). Global time of event 2015-02-01 12:56:12 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -66.1337 West, latitude 17.2031 North, depth 25 km.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.1337° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.2031° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83km S of Jobos, 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 2015-02-01 12:56:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-02-01 13:29:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 148 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 0.7581781 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 273.6 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 pr15032007 Id of event.
Event Code 15032007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS pr15032007 A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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