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Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.1826S, -66.5142WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 79 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico (49 miles) on Friday. Exact location of event, depth 39 km, -66.5142° West, 19.1826° North. Event id: pr16008010. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16008010. The temblor was picked up at 17:20:06 / 5:20 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 08/01/16 / 2016-01-08 21:20:06 / January 8, 2016 @ 9:20 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 39 km (24 miles).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 79 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.5142° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1826° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, 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 2016-01-08 21:20:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-08 22:15:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 138 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.70068592 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 309.6 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 pr16008010 Id of event.
Event Code 16008010 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16008010, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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