Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 94 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico (58 miles) on Friday. The temblor was picked up at 06:31:08 / 6:31 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/07/15 / 2015-07-24 11:31:08 / July 24, 2015 @ 11:31 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 44 km (27 miles). Exact location of event, depth 44 km, -67.6989° West, 19.1287° North. All ids that are associated to the event: pr15205010. Unique identifier: pr15205010.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days sixty-five, in the past 30 days seventy and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-three 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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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 94 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.6989° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.1287° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	44 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	94km NW of San Antonio, 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	2015-07-24 11:31:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-24 18:32:55	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	158	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	9	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.88933213	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.31 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	244.8	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	pr15205010	Id of event.
Event Code	15205010	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr15205010,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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