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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Puerto Rico region


Earthquake location 19.6573S, -65.4046WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported Puerto Rico region (0 miles) on Thursday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15211005. Id of event: pr15211005. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/07/15 / 2015-07-30 03:19:49 / July 30, 2015 @ 3:19 am. Exact location of event, depth 80 km, -65.4046° West, 19.6573° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 80 km (50 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:19:49 / 3:19 am (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 sixteen, in the last 10 days fifty-seven, in the past 30 days eighty-four and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: Puerto Rico region.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.4046° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.6573° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 80 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Puerto Rico region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-30 03:19:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-30 08:06:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.34747293 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 334.8 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 pr15211005 Id of event.
Event Code 15211005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15211005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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