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Minor earthquake: M3.2 quake has struck near Puerto Rico region


Earthquake location 19.4034S, -66.347WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported Puerto Rico region (0 miles) on Wednesday. Exact location, longitude -66.347° West, latitude 19.4034° North, depth = 66 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 66 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:49:51 / 9:49 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr15210020. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15210020. Global time and date of event 29/07/15 / 2015-07-29 21:49:51 / July 29, 2015 @ 9:49 pm UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days fourty-six, in the past 30 days sixty-seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: Puerto Rico region.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.347° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4034° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 66 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 2015-07-29 21:49:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-30 01:16:51 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 158 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.93694284 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 262.8 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 pr15210020 Id of event.
Event Code 15210020 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15210020, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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