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Minor earthquake, 3.46 mag strikes near Luquillo in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.0903S, -65.3938WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.46 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 86 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico (53 miles). The 3.46-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:59:08 / 5:59 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2021031010. Id of event: pr2021031010. The epicenter was at a depth of 24 km (15 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/01/21 / 2021-01-31 17:59:08 / January 31, 2021 @ 5:59 pm. Exact location of event, depth 24 km, -65.3938° West, 19.0903° North.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days fifty-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 86 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.46 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.3938° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0903° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86 km NNE of Luquillo, 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 2021-01-31 17:59:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-31 18:29:27 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 184 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.0056 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 299 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 pr2021031010 Id of event.
Event Code 2021031010 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2021031010, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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