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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Brenas in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.5298S, -66.3768WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 117 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico (73 miles) on Thursday. Unique identifier: pr15211023. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15211023. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/07/15 / 2015-07-30 17:45:06 / July 30, 2015 @ 5:45 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.3768 West, latitude 19.5298 North, depth = 40 km. The temblor was detected at 13:45:06 / 1:45 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 40 km (25 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days fifty-three, in the past 30 days seventy-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 117 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.3768° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.5298° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 117km N 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 2015-07-30 17:45:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-30 19:54:47 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.05552046 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 284.4 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 pr15211023 Id of event.
Event Code 15211023 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15211023, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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