Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Isabela in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 86 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico (53 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 34 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: pr15244007. Unique identifier: pr15244007. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:30:50 / 9:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -67.0043 West, latitude 19.2849 North, depth = 34 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/09/15 / 2015-09-01 13:30:50 / September 1, 2015 @ 1:30 pm.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days one hundred and eleven and in the last 365 days four hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 86 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.0043° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.2849° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	34 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	86km N of Isabela, 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	2015-09-01 13:30:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-01 13:55:14	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	178	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	7	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.81836522	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	316.8	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	pr15244007	Id of event.
Event Code	15244007	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr15244007,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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