Minor earthquake: M3.2 quake has struck near San Juan in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from San Juan in Puerto Rico. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr17055000. Id of event: pr17055000. The epicenter was at a depth of 16 km (10 miles). The temblor was picked up at 23:02:16 / 11:02 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -66.0747° West, latitude 19.0743° North, depth = 16 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/02/17 / 2017-02-24 03:02:16 / February 24, 2017 @ 3:02 am.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 68 km (42 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Trujillo Alto, Canovanas, Pájaros.

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

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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: 67 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.0747° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.0743° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	67km 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	2017-02-24 03:02:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-02-24 04:08:48	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	4	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.82465343	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	306	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	pr17055000	Id of event.
Event Code	17055000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr17055000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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