Minor earthquake, 3.07 mag was detected near Rincon in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.07 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Rincon in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/09/18 / 2018-09-30 08:40:07 / September 30, 2018 @ 8:40 am UTC/GMT. The 3.07-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:40:07 / 3:40 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -67.8086 West, latitude 18.266 North, depth = 135 km. Unique identifier: pr2018273004. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018273004. The epicenter was at a depth of 135 km (84 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Moca, Hormigueros, Cabo Rojo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Cabo Rojo (c. 10 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty-five 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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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 59 km W of Rincon, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.07 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.8086° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.266° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	135 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	59km W of Rincon, 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	2018-09-30 08:40:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-09-30 11:32:02	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	145	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	16	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6241	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.32 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	180	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	pr2018273004	Id of event.
Event Code	2018273004	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018273004,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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