Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Emajagua in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Emajagua in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, depth 5.01 km, -65.6357° West, 17.7573° North. Global time and date of event 02/09/16 / 2016-09-02 23:37:58 / September 2, 2016 @ 11:37 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:37:58 / 7:37 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.01 km (3 miles). Id of earthquake: us10006jtg. Event ids that are associated: us10006jtg.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Loíza, Aibonito, Carolina (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. 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: 37 km SE of Emajagua, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.6357° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.7573° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.01 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	37km SE of Emajagua, 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	2016-09-02 23:37:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-09-03 00:19:30	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	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.347	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.54 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	150	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us10006jtg	Id of event.
Event Code	10006jtg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006jtg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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