Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Culebra in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico. Event id: pr16074002. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16074002. The temblor was picked up at 01:23:02 / 1:23 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -65.3539° West, 18.9979° North, depth 39 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/03/16 / 2016-03-14 05:23:02 / March 14, 2016 @ 5:23 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luquillo, Culebra (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Luquillo (c. 8 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop).

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

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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: 77 km N of Culebra, 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	-65.3539° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.9979° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	39 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	77km N of Culebra, 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	2016-03-14 05:23:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-14 07:32:39	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	7	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.74560169	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.44 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	255.6	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	pr16074002	Id of event.
Event Code	16074002	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16074002,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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