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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 14 km N of Dorado, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.5897S, -66.2774WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Dorado in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Event id: pr15216006. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15216006. Exact location of event, longitude -66.2774 West, latitude 18.5897 North, depth = 62 km. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:02:37 / 8:02 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 62 km (39 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/08/15 / 2015-08-04 12:02:37 / August 4, 2015 @ 12:02 pm.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Maunabo, Peñuelas, Ceiba (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 46 km (29 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 fourty-three, in the past 30 days sixty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 14 km N of Dorado, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.2774° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.5897° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km N of Dorado, 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 2015-08-04 12:02:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-04 16:17:25 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.26320638 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 219.6 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 pr15216006 Id of event.
Event Code 15216006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15216006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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