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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag was detected near Isabela in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.2535S, -67.1819WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 84 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico (52 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 47 km (29 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:32:20 / 10:32 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -67.1819° West, 19.2535° North, depth 47 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 01/08/15 / 2015-08-01 14:32:20 / August 1, 2015 @ 2:32 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: pr15213012. Unique identifier: pr15213012.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days fourty-nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and ten and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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: 84 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.1819° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2535° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km N of Isabela, 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 2015-08-01 14:32:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-01 15:19:52 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 178 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.78422924 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 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 pr15213012 Id of event.
Event Code 15213012 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15213012, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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