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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Pole Ojea in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 16.8692S, -68.1872WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 162 km SW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico (101 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Unique identifier: us1000ejkb. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018157008, us1000ejkb. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.1872 West, latitude 16.8692 North, depth = 35 km. The temblor was picked up at 04:47:24 / 4:47 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/06/18 / 2018-06-06 09:47:24 / June 6, 2018 @ 9:47 am.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 162 km SW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.1872° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.8692° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 162km SW of Pole Ojea, 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 2018-06-06 09:47:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-06 06:03:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 138 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pr,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.528 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 245 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000ejkb Id of event.
Event Code 1000ejkb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018157008,us1000ejkb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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