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Minor earthquake, 3.29 mag was detected near Culebra in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.4125S, -65.2598WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.29 (ml/mb) strikes 122 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico (76 miles) on Tuesday. Event id: pr2018129000. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018129000. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/05/18 / 2018-05-09 00:03:21 / May 9, 2018 @ 12:03 am. The temblor was picked up at 20:03:21 / 8:03 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -65.2598 West, latitude 19.4125 North, depth = 69 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 69 km (43 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 122 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.29 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.2598° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4125° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 122km 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 2018-05-09 00:03:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-09 04:45:18 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 167 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.4003 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 330 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 pr2018129000 Id of event.
Event Code 2018129000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018129000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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