Minor earthquake, 3.12 mag has occurred near Puerto Rico region

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.12 (ml/mb) was reported Puerto Rico region (0 miles) on Wednesday. The 3.12-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:35:50 / 5:35 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 70 km (43 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.171 West, latitude 19.3978 North, depth = 70 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018094008. Id of event: pr2018094008. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/04/18 / 2018-04-04 17:35:50 / April 4, 2018 @ 5:35 pm.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: Puerto Rico region.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.12 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.171° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.3978° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	70 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Puerto Rico region	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-04-04 17:35:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-04-05 10:27:28	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	1.1308	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	339	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	pr2018094008	Id of event.
Event Code	2018094008	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018094008,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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