Minor earthquake, 3.21 mag was detected near Brenas in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.21 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 114 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico (71 miles). Id of earthquake: pr2019073018. Event ids that are associated: pr2019073018. Exact location of event, longitude -66.3583 West, latitude 19.5028 North, depth = 76 km. The temblor was reported at 18:11:14 / 6:11 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/03/19 / 2019-03-14 22:11:14 / March 14, 2019 @ 10:11 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 76 km (47 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.21 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.3583° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.5028° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	76 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	114km N of Brenas, 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	2019-03-14 22:11:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-03-15 00:11:17	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	159	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	8	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.2219	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.46 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	312	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	pr2019073018	Id of event.
Event Code	2019073018	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019073018,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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