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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Culebra in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.898S, -65.2938WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 48 km (30 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.2938 West, latitude 18.898 North, depth = 48 km. The temblor was reported at 17:15:52 / 5:15 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr15268007. Unique identifier: pr15268007. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/09/15 / 2015-09-25 21:15:52 / September 25, 2015 @ 9:15 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Luquillo (c. 8 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fajardo, Luquillo, Charlotte Amalie (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days eighty-nine and in the last 365 days five hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 65 km N of Culebra, 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 -65.2938° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.898° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km N of Culebra, 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 2015-09-25 21:15:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-26 01:04:03 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5874982 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 252 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 pr15268007 Id of event.
Event Code 15268007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15268007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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