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Minor earthquake, 3.27 mag strikes near Culebra in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.8561S, -65.3368WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.27 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.3368 West, latitude 18.8561 North, depth = 97 km. Id of earthquake: pr2018239004. Event ids that are associated: pr2018239004. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 97 km (60 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.27-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:11:39 / 9:11 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/08/18 / 2018-08-27 13:11:39 / August 27, 2018 @ 1:11 pm.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cruz Bay, Santa Barbara, Canovanas (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Río Grande (c. 13 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Canovanas (c. 8 400 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days seventy and in the last 365 days four hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 61 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.27 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.3368° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8561° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61km 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 2018-08-27 13:11:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-27 15:16:37 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 165 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.0825 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 327 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 pr2018239004 Id of event.
Event Code 2018239004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018239004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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