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Minor earthquake 3.23 mag, 76 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.9936S, -65.3225WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.23 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico. Global time and date of event 27/02/21 / 2021-02-27 05:30:44 / February 27, 2021 @ 5:30 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 05:30:44 / 5:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.3225 West, latitude 18.9936 North, depth = 15 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2021058004. Unique identifier: pr2021058004. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 15 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Culebra.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days one hundred and three and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty-seven 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.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 76 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.23 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.3225° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9936° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76 km 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 2021-02-27 05:30:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-27 06:44:33 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 161 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.001 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 317 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 pr2021058004 Id of event.
Event Code 2021058004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2021058004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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