Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near San Juan in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 73 kilometers (45 miles) from San Juan in Puerto Rico on Friday. Id of earthquake: pr17027003. Event ids that are associated: pr17027003. Exact location of event, depth 24 km, -66.0428° West, 19.1235° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/01/17 / 2017-01-27 10:10:03 / January 27, 2017 @ 10:10 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 24 km (15 miles). The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:10:03 / 6:10 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Antonio, Toa Baja, Sabana Seca (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Cataño (c. 28 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Dorado (c. 13 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from San Antonio (c. 6 500 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 73 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.0428° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.1235° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	24 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	73km 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	2017-01-27 10:10:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-01-27 10:40:29	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	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.79051745	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	255.6	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	pr17027003	Id of event.
Event Code	17027003	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr17027003,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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