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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Isabela in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.7031S, -67.3295WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 136 km NNW of Isabela, Puerto Rico (85 miles) on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:15:23 / 10:15 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -67.3295 West, latitude 19.7031 North, depth = 60 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15180000. Id of event: pr15180000. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 60 km (37 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/06/15 / 2015-06-29 02:15:23 / June 29, 2015 @ 2:15 am.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 136 km NNW of Isabela, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.3295° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.7031° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 136km NNW of Isabela, 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 2015-06-29 02:15:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-06-29 04:23:38 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.24506498 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 291.6 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 pr15180000 Id of event.
Event Code 15180000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15180000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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