Minor earthquake: M3.2 quake has struck near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 79 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico (49 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr15255006. Unique identifier: pr15255006. The temblor was detected at 03:13:14 / 3:13 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.6952 West, latitude 18.9375 North, depth = 48 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 48 km (30 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/09/15 / 2015-09-12 08:13:14 / September 12, 2015 @ 8:13 am.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 79 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.6952° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.9375° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	48 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	79km 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	2015-09-12 08:13:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-12 13:34:03	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	10	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.5874982	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.69 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	234	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	pr15255006	Id of event.
Event Code	15255006	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr15255006,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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