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Minor earthquake 3.3 mag, Puerto Rico region


Earthquake location 19.1945S, -66.6804WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, Puerto Rico region kilometers (0 miles) from Puerto Rico region. Global time and date of event 05/03/17 / 2017-03-05 18:50:10 / March 5, 2017 @ 6:50 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -66.6804 West, latitude 19.1945 North, depth = 36 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr17064004. Id of event: pr17064004. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 36 km (22 miles). The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:50:10 / 6:50 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Camuy, Arecibo, Hatillo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 80 km (50 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Camuy (c. 4 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.6804° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1945° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36 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 2017-03-05 18:50:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-05 19:12:10 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 168 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.72763538 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 pr17064004 Id of event.
Event Code 17064004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr17064004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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