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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Aguadilla in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.8785S, -67.7273WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Aguadilla in Puerto Rico on Thursday. Exact location, longitude -67.7273° West, latitude 18.8785° North, depth = 68 km. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:56:48 / 1:56 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 68 km (42 miles). Global time and date of event 16/07/15 / 2015-07-16 18:56:48 / July 16, 2015 @ 6:56 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15197017. Id of event: pr15197017.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aguada, Punta Cana, Aguadilla. The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Rincón (c. 1 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 78 km NW of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.7273° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8785° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 78km NW of Aguadilla, 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 2015-07-16 18:56:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-16 20:02:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 158 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.54527738 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 219.6 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 pr15197017 Id of event.
Event Code 15197017 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15197017, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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