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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near San Juan in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.0988S, -65.9391WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 72 kilometers (45 miles) from San Juan in Puerto Rico on Sunday. Unique identifier: pr15207013. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15207013. Exact location of event, longitude -65.9391 West, latitude 19.0988 North, depth = 33 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:43:36 / 12:43 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 26/07/15 / 2015-07-26 16:43:36 / July 26, 2015 @ 4:43 pm UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Cataño (c. 28 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from San Isidro (c. 8 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Santa Barbara (c. 5 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Isidro, Santa Barbara, Levittown (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days fourty-one, in the past 30 days fifty-six and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 72 km NNE of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.9391° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0988° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 72km NNE of San Juan, 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 2015-07-26 16:43:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-26 17:28:27 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.79590734 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 259.2 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 pr15207013 Id of event.
Event Code 15207013 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15207013, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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