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


Earthquake location 19.0235S, -66.7985WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Hatillo in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, -66.7985° West, 19.0235° North, depth 27 km. Event id: pr16184018. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16184018. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/07/16 / 2016-07-02 12:51:14 / July 2, 2016 @ 12:51 pm. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:51:14 / 8:51 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 27 km (17 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Estancias de Florida, Aguadilla, Manatí (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 59 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7985° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0235° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59km 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 12:51:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-02 13:05:22 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.62702407 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 298.8 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 pr16184018 Id of event.
Event Code 16184018 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16184018, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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