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Minor earthquake, 3.01 mag was detected near Rio Canas Abajo in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.0413S, -66.4616WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.01 (ml/mb) strikes 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Rio Canas Abajo in Puerto Rico on Friday. The temblor was reported at 01:02:03 / 1:02 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -66.4616° West, latitude 18.0413° North, depth = 16 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/08/17 / 2017-08-04 05:02:03 / August 4, 2017 @ 5:02 am. Id of earthquake: pr2017216000. Event ids that are associated: pr2017216000. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Isabela, Puerto Real, Punta Santiago (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 60 km (38 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop).

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

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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: 0 km ENE of Rio Canas Abajo, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.01 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.4616° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0413° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 0km ENE of Rio Canas Abajo, 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 2017-08-04 05:02:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-04 05:33:27 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 139 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1446 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 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 pr2017216000 Id of event.
Event Code 2017216000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2017216000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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