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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Hatillo in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.617S, -66.8755WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Hatillo in Puerto Rico on Sunday. Unique identifier: pr17100001. Ids that are associated to the event: pr17100001. The temblor was reported at 21:22:52 / 9:22 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -66.8755 West, latitude 18.617 North, depth = 78 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/04/17 / 2017-04-10 01:22:52 / April 10, 2017 @ 1:22 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 78 km (48 miles).

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bayamón, Barranquitas, Sabana Seca (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 15 km NNW of Hatillo, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8755° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.617° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km NNW of Hatillo, 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 2017-04-10 01:22:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-10 04:31:53 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 0.26769795 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 223.2 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 pr17100001 Id of event.
Event Code 17100001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr17100001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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