Minor earthquake, 3.52 mag was detected near Suárez in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.52 (ml/mb) was reported 127 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico (79 miles) on Friday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 42 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 22/01/21 / 2021-01-22 03:34:15 / January 22, 2021 @ 3:34 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2021022000. Id of event: pr2021022000. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.661 West, latitude 19.5643 North, depth = 42 km. The 3.52-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:34:15 / 3:34 am (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 thirty-one, in the past 30 days fourty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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: 127 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.52 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.661° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.5643° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	42 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	127 km N of Suárez, 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	2021-01-22 03:34:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-01-22 05:53:41	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	191	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	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.3245	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	299	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	pr2021022000	Id of event.
Event Code	2021022000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2021022000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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