Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Culebra in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.3561 West, latitude 18.5625 North, depth = 103 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/01/16 / 2016-01-12 18:21:48 / January 12, 2016 @ 6:21 pm. Id of earthquake: pr16012009. Event ids that are associated: pr16012009. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 103 km (64 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 14:21:48 / 2:21 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Humacao (c. 20 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Juan, Yabucoa, Road Town.

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 three, in the last 10 days seventy-three, in the past 30 days ninety-two and in the last 365 days five hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.3561° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.5625° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	103 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	29km NNW of Culebra, 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	2016-01-12 18:21:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-01-12 19:13:11	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.26230806	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	198	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	pr16012009	Id of event.
Event Code	16012009	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16012009,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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