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

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico. Exact location, longitude -65.2192° West, latitude 18.8572° North, depth = 55 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/11/15 / 2015-11-24 09:46:07 / November 24, 2015 @ 9:46 am UTC/GMT. Event id: pr15328003. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15328003. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:46:07 / 5:46 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 55 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Luquillo (c. 8 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Luquillo, Fajardo, Cruz Bay.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days five hundred and sixty-six 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 61 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	-65.2192° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.8572° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	55 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	61km 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	2015-11-24 09:46:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-11-24 13:50:51	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	6	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.54976895	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	234	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	pr15328003	Id of event.
Event Code	15328003	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr15328003,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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