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Minor earthquake: M3.2 quake has struck near Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.2024S, -66.5309WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 82 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico (51 miles). The temblor was picked up at 03:18:28 / 3:18 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -66.5309° West, latitude 19.2024° North, depth = 19 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/07/16 / 2016-07-15 07:18:28 / July 15, 2016 @ 7:18 am. Id of earthquake: pr16197003. Event ids that are associated: pr16197003. The epicenter was at a depth of 19 km (12 miles).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 82 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.5309° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2024° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, 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 2016-07-15 07:18:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-15 07:33:07 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.72134717 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 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 pr16197003 Id of event.
Event Code 16197003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16197003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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