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Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near Rincon in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) strikes 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Rincon in Puerto Rico on Friday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/04/17 / 2017-04-14 22:44:38 / April 14, 2017 @ 10:44 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 150 km (93 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: pr17104054. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr17104054. The temblor was picked up at 17:44:38 / 5:44 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.876 West, latitude 18.1221 North, depth = 150 km.

Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Cabo Rojo (c. 10 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Puerto Real (c. 6 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguadilla, Añasco, Hormigueros (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 70 km WSW of Rincon, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.876° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.1221° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	150 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	70km WSW of Rincon, 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	2017-04-14 22:44:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-04-15 00:17:26	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	188	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	16	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.45814079	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	208.8	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	pr17104054	Id of event.
Event Code	17104054	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr17104054,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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