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Minor earthquake 3.3 mag, 102 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.392S, -66.3304WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 102 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico (63 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -66.3304° West, 19.392° North, depth 59 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/08/15 / 2015-08-05 14:44:50 / August 5, 2015 @ 2:44 pm. Unique identifier: pr15217024. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15217024. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 59 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 10:44:50 / 10:44 am (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days seventy, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 102 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.3304° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.392° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 102km N of Brenas, 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 2015-08-05 14:44:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-05 19:46:26 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 168 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 1.11391095 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 313.2 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 pr15217024 Id of event.
Event Code 15217024 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15217024, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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