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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Hatillo in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.9319S, -66.8245WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Hatillo in Puerto Rico on Saturday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6 km (4 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 02/07/16 / 2016-07-02 12:57:54 / July 2, 2016 @ 12:57 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 08:57:54 / 8:57 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr16184019. Ids that are associated to the event: pr16184019. Exact location of event, longitude -66.8245 West, latitude 18.9319 North, depth = 6 km.

Epicenter of the event was 52 km (33 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Antonio, Ciales, Utuado (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-nine 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 49 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico. This data 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 -66.8245° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9319° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km N of Hatillo, 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 2016-07-02 12:57:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-02 13:33:29 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.53449759 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 234 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 pr16184019 Id of event.
Event Code 16184019 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16184019, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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