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Minor earthquake, 3.53 mag strikes near Pole Ojea in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.2053S, -67.9373WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.53 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 116 km SW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico (72 miles). Id of earthquake: pr2021012005. Event ids that are associated: us6000d7mj, pr2021012005. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/01/21 / 2021-01-12 02:21:15 / January 12, 2021 @ 2:21 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 25 km (16 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -67.9373 West, latitude 17.2053 North, depth = 25 km. The temblor was detected at 02:21:15 / 2:21 am (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 116 km SW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.53 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.9373° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.2053° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 116 km 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 2021-01-12 02:21:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-12 03:21:51 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 192 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 ,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.1518 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 253 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 pr2021012005 Id of event.
Event Code 2021012005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d7mj,pr2021012005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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