Minor earthquake: M3.27 quake has struck near San Juan in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.27 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from San Juan in Puerto Rico. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2017214000. Id of event: pr2017214000. The temblor was picked up at 00:05:22 / 12:05 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -66.0875° West, latitude 18.934° North, depth = 22 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 22 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/08/17 / 2017-08-02 04:05:22 / August 2, 2017 @ 4:05 am.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fajardo, Estancias de Florida, Comerío (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 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 thirty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 51 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.27 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.0875° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.934° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	22 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	51km 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	2017-08-02 04:05:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-08-02 04:56:04	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	2.7	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	165	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	18	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.625	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.39 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	227	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	pr2017214000	Id of event.
Event Code	2017214000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2017214000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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