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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Barceloneta in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.5249S, -66.5404WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Barceloneta in Puerto Rico. Unique identifier: pr16151000. Ids that are associated to the event: pr16151000. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/05/16 / 2016-05-30 01:30:03 / May 30, 2016 @ 1:30 am. The temblor was picked up at 21:30:03 / 9:30 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 81 km (50 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -66.5404 West, latitude 18.5249 North, depth = 81 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 46 km (29 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Río Grande, Lajas, Hormigueros.

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 8 km N of Barceloneta, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.5404° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.5249° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km N of Barceloneta, 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 2016-05-30 01:30:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-30 01:54:32 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 129 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04850903 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 205.2 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 pr16151000 Id of event.
Event Code 16151000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16151000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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