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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 10 km S of Emajagua, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9101S, -65.8837WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Emajagua in Puerto Rico. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16341008. Id of event: pr16341008. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -65.8837° West, 17.9101° North, depth 5 km. The temblor was detected at 06:27:37 / 6:27 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/12/16 / 2016-12-06 10:27:37 / December 6, 2016 @ 10:27 am.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ponce, Ciales, Ceiba (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 10 km S of Emajagua, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.8837° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9101° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km S of Emajagua, 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 2016-12-06 10:27:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-06 11:05:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 139 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.21829061 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 205.2 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 pr16341008 Id of event.
Event Code 16341008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16341008, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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