Minor earthquake: M3.2 quake has struck near Esperanza in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Esperanza in Puerto Rico. Event id: pr16219005. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16219005. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/08/16 / 2016-08-06 22:08:15 / August 6, 2016 @ 10:08 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 18:08:15 / 6:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -65.4117 West, latitude 17.9769 North, depth = 5 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguas Buenas, Cruz Bay, Saint Croix (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days one hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 14 km SSE of Esperanza, 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	-65.4117° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9769° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km SSE of Esperanza, 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	2016-08-06 22:08:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-06 22:59:46	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	17	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.35034296	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.87 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	205.2	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	pr16219005	Id of event.
Event Code	16219005	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16219005,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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