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Minor earthquake: M3.27 quake has struck near Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.27 (ml/mb) was reported 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico on Friday. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019312003. Unique identifier: pr2019312003. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.4778 West, latitude 19.0616 North, depth = 8 km. The 3.27-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:58:18 / 3:58 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8 km (5 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 08/11/19 / 2019-11-08 07:58:18 / November 8, 2019 @ 7:58 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Corozal, Pájaros, Quebradillas. Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 66 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.27 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.4778° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.0616° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	66km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, 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	2019-11-08 07:58:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-11-08 08:33:16	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	165	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	0.5868	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.19 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	237	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	pr2019312003	Id of event.
Event Code	2019312003	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019312003,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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