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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 102 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.3882S, -66.1828WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 102 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico (63 miles) on Tuesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 26 km (16 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/06/16 / 2016-06-08 00:01:54 / June 8, 2016 @ 12:01 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.1828 West, latitude 19.3882 North, depth = 26 km. The temblor was detected at 20:01:54 / 8:01 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16160000. Id of event: pr16160000.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 102 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.1828° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3882° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 102km N of San Juan, 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 00:01:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-08 05:34:53 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.9638923 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 295.2 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 pr16160000 Id of event.
Event Code 16160000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16160000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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