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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Pole Ojea in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.4883S, -67.8543WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 89 km SW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico (55 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.8543 West, latitude 17.4883 North, depth = 44 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/12/16 / 2016-12-18 04:23:31 / December 18, 2016 @ 4:23 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 44 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: pr16353000. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16353000. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:23:31 / 11:23 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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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. 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: 89 km SW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.8543° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.4883° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 89km SW of Pole Ojea, 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 2016-12-18 04:23:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-18 07:15:56 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.90729844 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 306 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 pr16353000 Id of event.
Event Code 16353000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16353000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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