Minor earthquake: M3.25 quake has struck near Luquillo in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.25 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Luquillo in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.424 West, latitude 18.9691 North, depth = 11 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/03/19 / 2019-03-13 05:33:59 / March 13, 2019 @ 5:33 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11 km (7 miles). The 3.25-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:33:59 / 1:33 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2019072005. Event ids that are associated: pr2019072005.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (47 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Río Grande (c. 13 500 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Luquillo (c. 8 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from San Isidro (c. 8 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Ceiba (c. 6 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ceiba, San Isidro, Río Grande (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days fifty-six and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 72 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.25 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.424° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.9691° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	72km NNE of Luquillo, 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	2019-03-13 05:33:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-03-13 09:15:54	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	162	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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.9297	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.55 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	314	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	pr2019072005	Id of event.
Event Code	2019072005	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019072005,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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