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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag was detected near Puerto Rico region


Earthquake location 19.5622S, -65.2957WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, Puerto Rico region (0 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -65.2957° West, 19.5622° North, depth 33 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/07/16 / 2016-07-31 01:50:15 / July 31, 2016 @ 1:50 am. The temblor was picked up at 01:50:15 / 1:50 am (local time epicenter). Event id: pr16213000. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16213000. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33 km (21 miles).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days six hundred and fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.2957° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.5622° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33 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 2016-07-31 01:50:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-31 02:56:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 178 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 1.24686161 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 255.6 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 pr16213000 Id of event.
Event Code 16213000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16213000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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