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Minor earthquake 3.2 mag, 8 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.538S, -66.092WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 8 kilometers (5 miles) from San Juan in Puerto Rico on Saturday. Global time and date of event 14/05/16 / 2016-05-14 06:52:33 / May 14, 2016 @ 6:52 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -66.092 West, latitude 18.538 North, depth = 75 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16135000. Id of event: pr16135000. The epicenter was at a depth of 75 km (47 miles). The temblor was picked up at 02:52:33 / 2:52 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 8 km (5 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Camuy, Adjuntas, Adjuntas (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.092° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.538° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km N of San Juan, 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 2016-05-14 06:52:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-14 07:17:14 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 18 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 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 190.8 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 pr16135000 Id of event.
Event Code 16135000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16135000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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