Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Puerto Rico region

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported Puerto Rico region kilometers (0 miles) from Puerto Rico region on Monday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 16 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: pr16221002. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16221002. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.0436 West, latitude 19.1051 North, depth = 16 km. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:25:33 / 7:25 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 08/08/16 / 2016-08-08 07:25:33 / August 8, 2016 @ 7:25 am UTC/GMT.

The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Cataño (c. 28 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Candelaria (c. 17 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santa Barbara, Ceiba, Candelaria (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 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 one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.0436° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.1051° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Puerto Rico region	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-08-08 07:25:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-08 08:35:14	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.77524609	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.44 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	208.8	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	pr16221002	Id of event.
Event Code	16221002	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16221002,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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