Minor earthquake, 3.41 mag has occurred near Puerto Rico region

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.41 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, Puerto Rico region (0 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2021006014. Unique identifier: pr2021006014. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 52 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/01/21 / 2021-01-06 14:43:22 / January 6, 2021 @ 2:43 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -65.2195 West, latitude 19.2596 North, depth = 52 km. The temblor was reported at 14:43:22 / 2:43 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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	3.41 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.2195° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.2596° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	52 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	2021-01-06 14:43:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-01-06 15:35:36	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	179	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	1.2091	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.37 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	320	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	pr2021006014	Id of event.
Event Code	2021006014	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2021006014,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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