Minor earthquake: M2.99 quake has struck near Pole Ojea in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) strikes 80 km W of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico (50 miles) on Tuesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/01/18 / 2018-01-16 09:19:30 / January 16, 2018 @ 9:19 am. Exact location of event, longitude -67.9286 West, latitude 17.841 North, depth = 126 km. Unique identifier: pr2018016002. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018016002. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 126 km (78 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 04:19:30 / 4:19 am (local time epicenter).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.99 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.9286° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.841° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	126 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	80km W of Pole Ojea, 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	2018-01-16 09:19:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-01-16 14:08:32	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	138	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	4	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.8355	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.39 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	224	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	pr2018016002	Id of event.
Event Code	2018016002	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018016002,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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