Minor earthquake 3.13 mag, 82 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.13 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 82 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico (51 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -65.3968° West, 19.0541° North, depth 11 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2017127008. Unique identifier: pr2017127008. The temblor was detected at 15:47:17 / 3:47 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/05/17 / 2017-05-07 19:47:17 / May 7, 2017 @ 7:47 pm.

Every 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seventy-seven and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 82 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.13 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.3968° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.0541° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	82km NNE of Luquillo, 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	2017-05-07 19:47:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-05-08 00:25:47	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	151	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.7553	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.4 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	258	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	pr2017127008	Id of event.
Event Code	2017127008	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2017127008,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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