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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Arecibo in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.1886S, -66.652WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 79 km N of Arecibo, Puerto Rico (49 miles). The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:27:13 / 1:27 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 41 km (25 miles). Event id: pr15201009. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15201009. Global time and date of event 20/07/15 / 2015-07-20 05:27:13 / July 20, 2015 @ 5:27 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 41 km, -66.652° West, 19.1886° North.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 79 km N of Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.652° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1886° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km N of Arecibo, 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 2015-07-20 05:27:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-20 11:11:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 121 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 0.7168556 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 277.2 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 pr15201009 Id of event.
Event Code 15201009 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15201009, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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