Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag was detected near Fajardo in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Fajardo in Puerto Rico on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 114 km (71 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 11/03/16 / 2016-03-11 03:58:57 / March 11, 2016 @ 3:58 am UTC/GMT. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:58:57 / 11:58 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 114 km, -65.629° West, 18.3463° North. Id of earthquake: pr16071000. Event ids that are associated: pr16071000.

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 52 km (32 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salinas, Orocovis, Vega Baja (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.629° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.3463° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	114 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km NE of Fajardo, 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	2016-03-11 03:58:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-11 04:12:23	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	168	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	0.22727377	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.28 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	165.6	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	pr16071000	Id of event.
Event Code	16071000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16071000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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