Minor earthquake, 3.12 mag strikes near Pole Ojea in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.12 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 85 km SW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico (53 miles). Exact location of event, depth 51 km, -67.7448° West, 17.418° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/01/18 / 2018-01-25 23:11:39 / January 25, 2018 @ 11:11 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 18:11:39 / 6:11 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 51 km (32 miles). Event id: pr2018025022. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018025022.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.12 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.7448° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.418° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	51 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	85km SW 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	2018-01-25 23:11:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-01-26 03:54:19	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	150	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	5	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.8658	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.38 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	340	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	pr2018025022	Id of event.
Event Code	2018025022	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018025022,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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