Minor earthquake, 3.43 mag has occurred near San Juan in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.43 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 105 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico (65 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13 km (8 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -65.9658° West, 19.414° North, depth 13 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/12/20 / 2020-12-23 22:37:59 / December 23, 2020 @ 10:37 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020358022. Unique identifier: pr2020358022. The temblor was detected at 22:37:59 / 10:37 pm (local time epicenter).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 eight, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 105 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.43 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.9658° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.414° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	105 km N of San Juan, 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	2020-12-23 22:37:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-12-23 23:11:34	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	181	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.0934	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.22 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	310	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	pr2020358022	Id of event.
Event Code	2020358022	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020358022,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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