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Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Aguadilla in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on July 18, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.8985S, -67.6755WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Aguadilla in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.6755 West, latitude 18.8985 North, depth = 40 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 40 km (25 miles). The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:02:48 / 1:02 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/07/15 / 2015-07-18 06:02:48 / July 18, 2015 @ 6:02 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15199001. Id of event: pr15199001.

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Rincón (c. 1 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguada, Rincón, Aguadilla (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days thirty-five, in the past 30 days fourty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 75 km NW of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.6755° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8985° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km 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 2015-07-18 06:02:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-18 06:37:42 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 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.68541456 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 226.8 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 pr15199001 Id of event.
Event Code 15199001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15199001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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