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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Culebra in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.048S, -65.342WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 82 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico (51 miles) on Sunday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/09/16 / 2016-09-26 01:25:29 / September 26, 2016 @ 1:25 am. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:25:29 / 9:25 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr16270000. Event ids that are associated: pr16270000. Exact location of event, depth 7 km, -65.342° West, 19.048° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 82 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico. This data 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 -65.342° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.048° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km 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 2016-09-26 01:25:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-26 02:14:52 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 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 0.73751685 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 237.6 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 pr16270000 Id of event.
Event Code 16270000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16270000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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