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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near San Juan in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.0741S, -66.1019WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from San Juan in Puerto Rico. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/03/16 / 2016-03-24 07:01:45 / March 24, 2016 @ 7:01 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: pr16084002. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16084002. Exact location of event, longitude -66.1019 West, latitude 19.0741 North, depth = 9 km. The temblor was detected at 03:01:45 / 3:01 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guaynabo, Pájaros, San Isidro.

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days five hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 67 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.1019° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0741° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9 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 2016-03-24 07:01:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-24 07:45:01 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 148 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.75997473 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 234 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 pr16084002 Id of event.
Event Code 16084002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16084002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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