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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.9696S, -67.4265WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/01/16 / 2016-01-05 02:52:59 / January 5, 2016 @ 2:52 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16005000. Id of event: pr16005000. The epicenter was at a depth of 18 km (11 miles). The temblor was detected at 22:52:59 / 10:52 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -67.4265 West, latitude 18.9696 North, depth = 18 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Quebradillas, Rincón, Moca.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 63 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.4265° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9696° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km NNW 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 2016-01-05 02:52:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-05 03:14:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5821083 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 277.2 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 pr16005000 Id of event.
Event Code 16005000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16005000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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