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Minor earthquake, 3.13 mag was detected near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.8403S, -67.1465WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.13 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. The 3.13-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:41:07 / 7:41 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2017189009. Id of event: pr2017189009. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.1465 West, latitude 18.8403 North, depth = 8 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/07/17 / 2017-07-08 11:41:07 / July 8, 2017 @ 11:41 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8 km (5 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Utuado, Hormigueros, Barceloneta (min 5000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 38 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.13 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.1465° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8403° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km N 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 2017-07-08 11:41:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-08 12:57:47 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 151 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3745 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 259 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 pr2017189009 Id of event.
Event Code 2017189009 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2017189009, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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