Minor earthquake, 3.49 mag was detected near Puerto Rico region

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.49 (ml/mb) was reported Puerto Rico region (0 miles) on Friday. The temblor was detected at 15:53:11 / 3:53 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 17/04/20 / 2020-04-17 15:53:11 / April 17, 2020 @ 3:53 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020108015. Id of event: pr2020108015. The epicenter was at a depth of 12 km (7 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.7263 West, latitude 19.0583 North, depth = 12 km.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days one thousand and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: Puerto Rico region.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.49 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.7263° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.0583° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Puerto Rico region	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-04-17 15:53:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-17 16:26:07	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	187	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	0.7177	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.49 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	317	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	pr2020108015	Id of event.
Event Code	2020108015	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020108015,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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