Minor earthquake, 3.07 mag has occurred near Luquillo in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.07 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 95 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico (59 miles). Unique identifier: pr2019250003. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019250003. Exact location of event, depth 11 km, -65.3606° West, 19.168° North. The 3.07-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:19:59 / 4:19 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11 km (7 miles). Global time and date of event 07/09/19 / 2019-09-07 08:19:59 / September 7, 2019 @ 8:19 am UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 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: 95 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.07 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.3606° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.168° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	95km 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	2019-09-07 08:19:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-09-07 12:53:11	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	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	18	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.1227	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.39 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	208	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	pr2019250003	Id of event.
Event Code	2019250003	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019250003,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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