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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Luis M. Cintron in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.3104S, -65.5039WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Luis M. Cintron in Puerto Rico. Global time and date of event 19/09/15 / 2015-09-19 01:35:13 / September 19, 2015 @ 1:35 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -65.5039° West, latitude 18.3104° North, depth = 104 km. Unique identifier: pr15262000. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15262000. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:35:13 / 9:35 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 104 km (65 miles).

Event epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Campanilla, Naranjito, Ingenio (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and one 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km E of Luis M. Cintron, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.5039° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.3104° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 104 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km E of Luis M. Cintron, 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 2015-09-19 01:35:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-19 04:58:15 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.20930746 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 147.6 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 pr15262000 Id of event.
Event Code 15262000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15262000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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