Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Culebra in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was reported 93 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico (58 miles) on Monday. The temblor was detected at 18:31:34 / 6:31 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 27/03/17 / 2017-03-27 22:31:34 / March 27, 2017 @ 10:31 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 16 km (10 miles). Exact location of event, depth 16 km, -65.291° West, 19.1467° North. Unique identifier: pr17086003. Ids that are associated to the event: pr17086003.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days thirty-three and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 93 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.291° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.1467° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	93km N of Culebra, 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	2017-03-27 22:31:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-03-27 22:46:41	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	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	11	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.8345349	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	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	pr17086003	Id of event.
Event Code	17086003	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr17086003,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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