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Minor earthquake 3.15 mag, 1 km WNW of Canovanas, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.3841S, -65.9218WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.15 (ml/mb) strikes 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Canovanas in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018143002. Unique identifier: pr2018143002. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/05/18 / 2018-05-23 04:38:55 / May 23, 2018 @ 4:38 am UTC/GMT. The 3.15-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:38:55 / 12:38 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -65.9218 West, latitude 18.3841 North, depth = 149 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 149 km (93 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jayuya, Juana Díaz, Santa Isabel. Event epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 4 km (2 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 1 km WNW of Canovanas, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.15 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.9218° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.3841° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 149 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km WNW of Canovanas, 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 2018-05-23 04:38:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-23 08:02:41 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 153 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4577 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 295 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 pr2018143002 Id of event.
Event Code 2018143002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018143002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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