Minor earthquake, 3.51 mag has occurred near Hatillo in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.51 (ml/mb) strikes 158 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico (98 miles) on Monday. Unique identifier: pr2020146009. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020146009. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/05/20 / 2020-05-25 18:19:42 / May 25, 2020 @ 6:19 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -66.6593 West, latitude 19.9128 North, depth = 35 km. The 3.51-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:19:42 / 2:19 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.51 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.6593° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.9128° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	158km N of Hatillo, 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	2020-05-25 18:19:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-25 18:56:00	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	190	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	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.4415	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	286	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	pr2020146009	Id of event.
Event Code	2020146009	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020146009,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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