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Minor earthquake, 3.03 mag has occurred near Puerto Rico region


Earthquake location 17.8855S, -65.6346WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.03 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, Puerto Rico region kilometers (0 miles) from Puerto Rico region. Exact location of earthquake, -65.6346° West, 17.8855° North, depth 6 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/05/17 / 2017-05-23 06:23:30 / May 23, 2017 @ 6:23 am UTC/GMT. The 3.03-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:23:30 / 6:23 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: pr2017143003. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2017143003.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Barranquitas, Guaynabo, Comerío (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: Puerto Rico region.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.03 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.6346° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8855° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6 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 2017-05-23 06:23:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-25 00:38:14 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 141 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 0.227 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 219 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 pr2017143003 Id of event.
Event Code 2017143003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2017143003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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