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Minor earthquake: M3.7 quake has struck near Pole Ojea in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Pole Ojea in Puerto Rico. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -67.3951 West, latitude 17.6311 North, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/03/20 / 2020-03-21 02:28:01 / March 21, 2020 @ 2:28 am. The temblor was reported at 22:28:01 / 10:28 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70008dd2. Unique identifier: us70008dd2.

The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from San Germán (c. 12 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Cabo Rojo (c. 10 800 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Guánica (c. 9 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguada, Peñuelas, Las Marías (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days sixty-six, in the past 30 days two hundred and sixty-one and in the last 365 days one thousand, six hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each 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 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 44 km SSW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.3951° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.6311° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	44km SSW 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	2020-03-21 02:28:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-03-21 02:36:07	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	211	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	0.461	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.58 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	185	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	us70008dd2	Id of event.
Event Code	70008dd2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70008dd2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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