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Minor earthquake: M3.02 quake has struck near Culebra in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.5086S, -65.3371WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.02 (ml/mb) strikes 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico on Sunday. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/01/19 / 2019-01-14 03:16:28 / January 14, 2019 @ 3:16 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -65.3371 West, latitude 18.5086 North, depth = 113 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019014001. Unique identifier: pr2019014001. The temblor was detected at 23:16:28 / 11:16 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 113 km (70 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Humacao (c. 20 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tortola, Yabucoa, Road Town (min 5000 pop).

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 twelve, in the past 30 days thirty-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 23 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.02 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.3371° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.5086° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 113 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km 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 2019-01-14 03:16:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-14 08:11:25 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 140 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6295 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 325 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 pr2019014001 Id of event.
Event Code 2019014001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019014001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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