Minor earthquake: M2.97 quake has struck near Culebra in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) was reported 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 30 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.97-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:33:34 / 4:33 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -65.2606° West, 18.8058° North, depth 30 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018273021. Id of event: pr2018273021. Global time and date of event 30/09/18 / 2018-09-30 20:33:34 / September 30, 2018 @ 8:33 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Loíza, Río Grande, Isabel Segunda (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 67 km (42 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Río Grande (c. 13 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Luquillo (c. 8 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 55 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.97 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.2606° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.8058° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	30 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	55km 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	2018-09-30 20:33:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-01 00:44:42	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	136	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	3	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.8869	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.38 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	340	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	pr2018273021	Id of event.
Event Code	2018273021	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018273021,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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