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Minor earthquake 3.1 mag, 57 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.0079S, -66.789WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Hatillo in Puerto Rico. Global time and date of event 13/11/15 / 2015-11-13 07:03:13 / November 13, 2015 @ 7:03 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 34 km (21 miles). Id of earthquake: pr15317002. Event ids that are associated: pr15317002. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:03:13 / 3:03 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -66.789° West, 19.0079° North, depth 34 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lares, Ceiba, San Sebastián. The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 57 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.789° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0079° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km N of Hatillo, 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 2015-11-13 07:03:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-13 07:32:06 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 148 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5821083 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 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 pr15317002 Id of event.
Event Code 15317002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15317002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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