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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Culebra in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on October 13, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.8122S, -65.2713WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, -65.2713° West, 18.8122° North, depth 63 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15286004. Id of event: pr15286004. The temblor was reported at 11:14:36 / 11:14 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/10/15 / 2015-10-13 15:14:36 / October 13, 2015 @ 3:14 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 63 km (39 miles).

Event epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Río Grande (c. 13 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Luquillo (c. 8 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Loíza, Río Grande, Isabel Segunda (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days fifty-five and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 56 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.2713° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8122° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km 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 2015-10-13 15:14:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-13 21:13:49 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 0.50215824 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 241.2 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 pr15286004 Id of event.
Event Code 15286004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15286004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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