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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Culebra in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.09S, -65.3375WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 87 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico (54 miles) on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.3375 West, latitude 19.09 North, depth = 35 km. Unique identifier: pr16248038. Ids that are associated to the event: pr16248038. The temblor was detected at 15:44:45 / 3:44 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/09/16 / 2016-09-04 19:44:45 / September 4, 2016 @ 7:44 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days five hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 87 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.3375° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.09° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 87km 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 2016-09-04 19:44:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-04 22:22:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 158 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.77973767 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 226.8 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 pr16248038 Id of event.
Event Code 16248038 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16248038, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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