Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Brenas in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 111 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico (69 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 31 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: pr16331002. Unique identifier: pr16331002. Exact location of event, depth 31 km, -66.3028° West, 19.471° North. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:00:37 / 11:00 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 26/11/16 / 2016-11-26 03:00:37 / November 26, 2016 @ 3:00 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days two hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 111 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.3028° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.471° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	31 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	111km 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	2016-11-26 03:00:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-11-26 08:55:10	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	11	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.17319976	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	288	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	pr16331002	Id of event.
Event Code	16331002	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16331002,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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