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Minor earthquake 3.4 mag, 56 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico

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Earthquake location 19.0082S, -67.0788WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, -67.0788° West, 19.0082° North, depth 23.73 km. The temblor was reported at 00:38:28 / 12:38 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000at2q. Event ids that are associated: us1000at2q. The epicenter was at a depth of 23.73 km (15 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 14/10/17 / 2017-10-14 04:38:28 / October 14, 2017 @ 4:38 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Lares (c. 7 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lares, Añasco, Rincón. Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 56 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.0788° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0082° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km 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 2017-10-14 04:38:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-04 00:12:58 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 us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.72 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 225 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 us1000at2q Id of event.
Event Code 1000at2q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000at2q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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