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Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near Culebra in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000dhph. Id of event: us6000dhph. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/02/21 / 2021-02-14 23:49:57 / February 14, 2021 @ 11:49 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:49:57 / 11:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -65.3° West, 18.8796° North, depth 35 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Río Grande (c. 13 500 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Luquillo (c. 8 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Isabel Segunda, San Isidro, Cruz Bay. Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop).

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 three, in the last 10 days seventy-five, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-eight and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 63 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.3° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.8796° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	63 km N of Culebra, 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	2021-02-14 23:49:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-02-15 00:08:04	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	178	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.899	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.48 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	208	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000dhph	Id of event.
Event Code	6000dhph	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000dhph,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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