Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near San Juan in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 74 kilometers (46 miles) from San Juan in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Global time and date of event 24/08/16 / 2016-08-24 03:13:18 / August 24, 2016 @ 3:13 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 42 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -65.9804° West, 19.1303° North, depth 42 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr16237000. Unique identifier: pr16237000. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:13:18 / 11:13 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (47 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Cataño (c. 28 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Loíza (c. 4 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Levittown, Loíza, Cataño (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 74 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.9804° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.1303° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	42 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	74km 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	2016-08-24 03:13:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-24 03:43:41	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.82195848	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.34 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	259.2	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	pr16237000	Id of event.
Event Code	16237000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16237000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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