Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near Luquillo in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 108 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico (67 miles) on Saturday. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/11/15 / 2015-11-28 21:41:39 / November 28, 2015 @ 9:41 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15332005. Id of event: pr15332005. The temblor was picked up at 17:41:39 / 5:41 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 50 km (31 miles). Exact location of event, depth 50 km, -65.3376° West, 19.2886° North.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days seven hundred and eight 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 108 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.3376° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.2886° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	50 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	108km 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	2015-11-28 21:41:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-11-28 22:10:08	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	168	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	15	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.97736703	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.23 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	255.6	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	pr15332005	Id of event.
Event Code	15332005	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr15332005,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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