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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Hatillo in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.134S, -66.828WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Hatillo in Puerto Rico on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 22 km (14 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -66.828 West, latitude 19.134 North, depth = 22 km. Event id: pr15200016. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15200016. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:16:43 / 11:16 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/07/15 / 2015-07-19 15:16:43 / July 19, 2015 @ 3:16 pm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arecibo, Quebradillas, Isabela. The epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Camuy (c. 4 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 71 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.828° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.134° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71km N of Hatillo, 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 2015-07-19 15:16:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-19 15:50:25 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 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.71056739 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 255.6 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 pr15200016 Id of event.
Event Code 15200016 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15200016, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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