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Minor earthquake 3.2 mag, 63 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.83S, -67.5907WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 63 kilometers (39 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Thursday. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:14:08 / 9:14 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 21/10/16 / 2016-10-21 02:14:08 / October 21, 2016 @ 2:14 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 13 km, -67.5907° West, 18.83° North. Id of earthquake: pr16295000. Event ids that are associated: pr16295000. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 13 km (8 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Quebradillas, Añasco, Isabela (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 64 km (40 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 63 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.5907° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.83° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km NW of San Antonio, 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 2016-10-21 02:14:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-21 03:41:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.45544585 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 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 pr16295000 Id of event.
Event Code 16295000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16295000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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