Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Arecibo in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 78 km NNE of Arecibo, Puerto Rico (48 miles). The temblor was reported at 04:55:20 / 4:55 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/12/15 / 2015-12-10 08:55:20 / December 10, 2015 @ 8:55 am. Unique identifier: pr15344008. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15344008. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -66.5483 West, latitude 19.1651 North, depth = 10 km.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days four hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 78 km NNE of Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.5483° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.1651° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	78km NNE of Arecibo, 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	2015-12-10 08:55:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-12-10 12:25:33	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	138	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	11	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.68361793	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	288	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	pr15344008	Id of event.
Event Code	15344008	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr15344008,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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