Minor earthquake, 3.33 mag was detected near Brenas in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.33 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Brenas in Puerto Rico on Saturday. Unique identifier: pr2017358000. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2017358000. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/12/17 / 2017-12-24 02:16:18 / December 24, 2017 @ 2:16 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -66.3136 West, latitude 18.5003 North, depth = 103 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 103 km (64 miles). The temblor was detected at 22:16:18 / 10:16 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Maricao, Las Marías, Yauco. Event epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 4 km NE of Brenas, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.33 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.3136° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.5003° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	103 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km NE of Brenas, 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	2017-12-24 02:16:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-24 02:35:44	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		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	171	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	9	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.424	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	250	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	pr2017358000	Id of event.
Event Code	2017358000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2017358000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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