Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Brenas in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Brenas in Puerto Rico. Event id: pr16216006. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16216006. Global time and date of event 03/08/16 / 2016-08-03 13:28:55 / August 3, 2016 @ 1:28 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 29 km, -66.3725° West, 19.1049° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 29 km (18 miles). The temblor was reported at 09:28:55 / 9:28 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bayamón, Toa Alta, Candelaria (min 5000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 70 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.3725° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.1049° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	29 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	70km N of Brenas, 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	2016-08-03 13:28:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-03 14:10:59	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	17	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.64139711	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.23 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	234	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	pr16216006	Id of event.
Event Code	16216006	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16216006,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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