Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 86 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico (53 miles) on Sunday. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:16:23 / 1:16 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -67.5828° West, 19.1236° North, depth 41 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr17036001. Unique identifier: pr17036001. The epicenter was at a depth of 41 km (25 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/02/17 / 2017-02-05 06:16:23 / February 5, 2017 @ 6:16 am.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and ten 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 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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 NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.5828° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.1236° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	41 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	86km NW of San Antonio, 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	2017-02-05 06:16:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-02-05 07:22:03	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	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	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	8	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.74111011	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.44 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	302.4	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	pr17036001	Id of event.
Event Code	17036001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr17036001,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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