Minor earthquake, 3.17 mag has occurred near Puerto Rico region

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.17 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, Puerto Rico region (0 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018212038. Unique identifier: pr2018212038. The 3.17-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:59:33 / 9:59 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 34 km, -67.1876° West, 19.558° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 31/07/18 / 2018-07-31 09:59:33 / July 31, 2018 @ 9:59 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 34 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.17 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.1876° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.558° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	34 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	2018-07-31 09:59:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-31 13:10:22	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	155	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	1.0931	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.23 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	341	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	pr2018212038	Id of event.
Event Code	2018212038	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018212038,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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