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


Earthquake location 18.5188S, -66.1865WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Levittown in Puerto Rico. The temblor was picked up at 15:49:06 / 3:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -66.1865° West, latitude 18.5188° North, depth = 78 km. Global time and date of event 08/06/16 / 2016-06-08 19:49:06 / June 8, 2016 @ 7:49 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: pr16160007. Event ids that are associated: pr16160007. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 78 km (48 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lares, Peñuelas, Ponce (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 10 km (6 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days three hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km N of Levittown, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.1865° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.5188° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km N of Levittown, 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 2016-06-08 19:49:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-08 20:57:18 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 0.39705536 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 216 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 pr16160007 Id of event.
Event Code 16160007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16160007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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