Minor earthquake: M3.62 quake has struck near Puerto Rico region

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.62 (ml/mb) was reported Puerto Rico region (0 miles) on Thursday. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/01/21 / 2021-01-07 00:32:08 / January 7, 2021 @ 12:32 am UTC/GMT. Event id: pr2021007001. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2021007001. Exact location of event, depth 52 km, -65.3293° West, 19.6525° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 52 km (32 miles). The temblor was detected at 00:32:08 / 12:32 am (local time epicenter).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.62 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.3293° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.6525° 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	2021-01-07 00:32:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-01-07 00:48:30	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	202	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	17	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.5407	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.34 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	298	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	pr2021007001	Id of event.
Event Code	2021007001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2021007001,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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