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

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 87 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico (54 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11 km (7 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 11/04/17 / 2017-04-11 00:30:00 / April 11, 2017 @ 12:30 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 11 km, -67.0534° West, 19.2935° North. Event id: pr17101000. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr17101000. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:30:00 / 8:30 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 87 km N of Isabela, 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	-67.0534° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.2935° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	87km 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	2017-04-11 00:30:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-04-11 01:10:44	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	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	17	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.82195848	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.28 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	234	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	pr17101000	Id of event.
Event Code	17101000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr17101000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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