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


Earthquake location 18.624S, -65.198WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. Event id: pr17088008. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr17088008. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/03/17 / 2017-03-29 19:19:47 / March 29, 2017 @ 7:19 pm. The temblor was reported at 15:19:47 / 3:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.198 West, latitude 18.624 North, depth = 70 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 70 km (43 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santa Barbara, Canovanas, Punta Santiago. Epicenter of the earthquake was 58 km (36 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Río Grande (c. 13 500 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days four hundred and four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 37 km NNE of Culebra, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.198° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.624° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 70 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km NNE 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 2017-03-29 19:19:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-30 00:05:47 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.62253249 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 306 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 pr17088008 Id of event.
Event Code 17088008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr17088008, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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