Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near San Juan in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 104 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico (65 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/12/16 / 2016-12-06 12:12:22 / December 6, 2016 @ 12:12 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -65.9805 West, latitude 19.406 North, depth = 21 km. The temblor was reported at 08:12:22 / 8:12 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr16341014. Unique identifier: pr16341014. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 21 km (13 miles).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and six 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: 104 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.9805° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.406° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	21 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	104km 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	2016-12-06 12:12:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-06 15:47:15	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	138	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	10	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.13277557	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.33 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	273.6	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	pr16341014	Id of event.
Event Code	16341014	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16341014,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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