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

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Bairoa in Puerto Rico on Monday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/01/17 / 2017-01-09 20:00:08 / January 9, 2017 @ 8:00 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -66.0613 West, latitude 18.298 North, depth = 118 km. The temblor was picked up at 16:00:08 / 4:00 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 118 km (73 miles). Event id: pr17009001. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr17009001.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Culebra, Peñuelas, Arecibo.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 4 km NNW of Bairoa, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.0613° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.298° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	118 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km NNW of Bairoa, 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	2017-01-09 20:00:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-01-09 20:27:03	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	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.02425451	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	151.2	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	pr17009001	Id of event.
Event Code	17009001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr17009001,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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