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Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near Isabela in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.2935S, -67.0534WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 87 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico (54 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11 km (7 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 11/04/17 / 2017-04-11 00:30:00 / April 11, 2017 @ 12:30 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 11 km, -67.0534° West, 19.2935° North. Event id: pr17101000. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr17101000. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:30:00 / 8:30 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 87 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.0534° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2935° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 87km N of Isabela, 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 2017-04-11 00:30:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-11 01:10:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.82195848 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 234 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 pr17101000 Id of event.
Event Code 17101000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr17101000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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