Minor earthquake: M3.11 quake has struck near Mona Passage

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.11 (ml/mb) was reported Mona Passage (0 miles) on Wednesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 118 km (73 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 17:31:33 / 5:31 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 21/11/18 / 2018-11-21 17:31:33 / November 21, 2018 @ 5:31 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -67.9371 West, latitude 19.1711 North, depth = 118 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018325009. Unique identifier: pr2018325009.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: Mona Passage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.11 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.9371° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.1711° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	118 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Mona Passage	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-11-21 17:31:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-11-21 18:58:51	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	149	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	1.3097	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	230	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	pr2018325009	Id of event.
Event Code	2018325009	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018325009,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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