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

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Rincon in Puerto Rico on Monday. The epicenter was at a depth of 29 km (18 miles). Global time and date of event 29/02/16 / 2016-02-29 06:06:00 / February 29, 2016 @ 6:06 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -67.4525 West, latitude 18.552 North, depth = 29 km. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:06:00 / 2:06 am (local time epicenter). Event id: pr16060000. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16060000.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arecibo, Sabana Grande, Lajas (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from San Germán (c. 12 100 pop).

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 seven, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 31 km NW of Rincon, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.4525° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.552° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	29 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31km NW of Rincon, 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	2016-02-29 06:06:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-02-29 06:25:36	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	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.16798496	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.43 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	262.8	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	pr16060000	Id of event.
Event Code	16060000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16060000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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