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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 50 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.8199S, -67.4261WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/06/16 / 2016-06-14 19:57:53 / June 14, 2016 @ 7:57 pm. Event id: pr16166007. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16166007. Exact location of earthquake, -67.4261° West, 18.8199° North, depth 14 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 14 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:57:53 / 3:57 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mayagüez, Hatillo, Camuy (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (47 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 50 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.4261° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8199° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km NW of San Antonio, 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 2016-06-14 19:57:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-15 01:06:51 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.43568291 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 280.8 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 pr16166007 Id of event.
Event Code 16166007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16166007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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