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Minor earthquake, 3.48 mag strikes near Rincon in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.6701S, -67.5916WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.48 (ml/mb) was reported 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Rincon in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.5916 West, latitude 18.6701 North, depth = 18 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/06/19 / 2019-06-18 19:40:57 / June 18, 2019 @ 7:40 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 18 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: pr2019169013. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019169013. The temblor was picked up at 14:40:57 / 2:40 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hatillo, Camuy, Cabo Rojo.

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days twenty-eight 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 51 km NW of Rincon, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.48 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.5916° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.6701° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51km NW of Rincon, 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 2019-06-18 19:40:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-18 20:07:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 186 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.307 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 301 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 pr2019169013 Id of event.
Event Code 2019169013 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019169013, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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