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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near San Juan in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.5028S, -66.102WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 114 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico (71 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/03/18 / 2018-03-01 18:13:18 / March 1, 2018 @ 6:13 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 38 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:13:18 / 2:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -66.102° West, latitude 19.5028° North, depth = 38 km. Id of earthquake: pr2018060006. Event ids that are associated: pr2018060006.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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: 114 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.102° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.5028° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 114km N of San Juan, 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 2018-03-01 18:13:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-01 20:04:43 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.1939 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 271 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 pr2018060006 Id of event.
Event Code 2018060006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018060006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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