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Minor earthquake 3.1 mag, 103 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.347S, -67.4875WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 103 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico (64 miles) on Thursday. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:45:01 / 8:45 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 29 km, -67.4875° West, 19.347° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 29 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: pr15330008. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15330008. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/11/15 / 2015-11-26 12:45:01 / November 26, 2015 @ 12:45 pm UTC/GMT.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-nine 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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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 103 km NNW of San Antonio, 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 -67.4875° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.347° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 103km NNW of San Antonio, 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 2015-11-26 12:45:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-26 16:08:22 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.94323105 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 324 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 pr15330008 Id of event.
Event Code 15330008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15330008, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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