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Minor earthquake, 3.28 mag was detected near Puerto Rico region


Earthquake location 19.0213S, -65.2758WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.28 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, Puerto Rico region kilometers (0 miles) from Puerto Rico region. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 63 km (39 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 16:59:25 / 4:59 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -65.2758° West, 19.0213° North, depth 63 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/11/18 / 2018-11-20 16:59:25 / November 20, 2018 @ 4:59 pm. Event id: pr2018324007. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018324007.

Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Culebra.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.28 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.2758° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0213° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Puerto Rico region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-20 16:59:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-20 22:01:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 166 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 1.0495 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 326 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 pr2018324007 Id of event.
Event Code 2018324007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018324007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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