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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Luquillo in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.1499S, -65.386WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 92 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico (57 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/07/15 / 2015-07-20 03:42:10 / July 20, 2015 @ 3:42 am. Exact location of event, longitude -65.386 West, latitude 19.1499 North, depth = 28 km. Id of earthquake: pr15201006. Event ids that are associated: pr15201006. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 28 km (17 miles). The temblor was detected at 23:42:10 / 11:42 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 92 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico. This data 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 -65.386° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1499° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 92km NNE of Luquillo, 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 2015-07-20 03:42:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-20 11:08:00 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 3 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.84351805 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 324 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 pr15201006 Id of event.
Event Code 15201006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15201006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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