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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 32 km SSW of Esperanza, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.8367S, -65.6106WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Esperanza in Puerto Rico. Id of earthquake: pr17064002. Event ids that are associated: pr17064002. The temblor was picked up at 01:17:48 / 1:17 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 05/03/17 / 2017-03-05 05:17:48 / March 5, 2017 @ 5:17 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -65.6106° West, 17.8367° North, depth 12 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aibonito, Salinas, Loíza. Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 32 km SSW of Esperanza, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.6106° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8367° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32km SSW of Esperanza, 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 2017-03-05 05:17:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-05 07:56:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 3 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.26500301 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.05 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 pr17064002 Id of event.
Event Code 17064002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr17064002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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