Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag was detected near Rincon in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Rincon in Puerto Rico on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 03/05/20 / 2020-05-03 01:17:40 / May 3, 2020 @ 1:17 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us7000994f. Event ids that are associated: us7000994f. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.6073 West, latitude 18.6256 North, depth = 35 km. The temblor was reported at 20:17:40 / 8:17 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Camuy, Cabo Rojo, Las Marías. Epicenter of the earthquake was 68 km (42 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days fourty-eight, in the past 30 days one hundred and seventy-one and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 49 km NW of Rincon, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.6073° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.6256° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	49km NW of Rincon, 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	2020-05-03 01:17:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-03 01:26:41	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	168	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	,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	0.496	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	172	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	us7000994f	Id of event.
Event Code	7000994f	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000994f,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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