Minor earthquake, 3.06 mag has occurred near Culebra in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.06 (ml/mb) was reported 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.3798 West, latitude 18.833 North, depth = 62 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/02/19 / 2019-02-11 01:11:52 / February 11, 2019 @ 1:11 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 62 km (39 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 21:11:52 / 9:11 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019042001. Id of event: pr2019042001.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Naguabo, Isabel Segunda, Santa Barbara. The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Río Grande (c. 13 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Canovanas (c. 8 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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: 59 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.06 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.3798° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.833° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	62 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	59km N of Culebra, 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	2019-02-11 01:11:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-02-11 05:04:58	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	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	144	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	0.8351	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.42 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	329	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	pr2019042001	Id of event.
Event Code	2019042001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019042001,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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