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Minor earthquake, 3.04 mag strikes near Pole Ojea in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.7451S, -67.8796WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.04 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 77 km WSW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico (48 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/07/18 / 2018-07-24 09:45:44 / July 24, 2018 @ 9:45 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 37 km (23 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -67.8796 West, latitude 17.7451 North, depth = 37 km. The temblor was reported at 04:45:44 / 4:45 am (local time epicenter). Event id: pr2018205002. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018205002.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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 ten, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 77 km WSW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.04 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.8796° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.7451° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km WSW 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 2018-07-24 09:45:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-24 12:50:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 142 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.8131 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 253 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 pr2018205002 Id of event.
Event Code 2018205002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018205002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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