Minor earthquake: M3.38 quake has struck near Barahona in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.38 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Barahona in Puerto Rico. Id of earthquake: pr2017154000. Event ids that are associated: pr2017154000. The temblor was picked up at 23:42:12 / 11:42 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/06/17 / 2017-06-03 03:42:12 / June 3, 2017 @ 3:42 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.4386 West, latitude 18.3756 North, depth = 58 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 58 km (36 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cabo Rojo, Aguada, Hormigueros (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 five, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 2 km NNE of Barahona, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.38 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.4386° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.3756° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	58 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km NNE of Barahona, 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	2017-06-03 03:42:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-06-03 14:31:15	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	176	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	22	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1362	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.12 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	140	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	pr2017154000	Id of event.
Event Code	2017154000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2017154000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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