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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Brenas in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.7567S, -66.4142WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Brenas in Puerto Rico. Unique identifier: pr17085003. Ids that are associated to the event: pr17085003. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/03/17 / 2017-03-26 10:37:50 / March 26, 2017 @ 10:37 am. Exact location, longitude -66.4142° West, latitude 18.7567° North, depth = 20 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 20 km (12 miles). The temblor was detected at 06:37:50 / 6:37 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Sebastián, Cayey, Coamo (min 5000 pop).

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

Questions or comments?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 32 km NNW of Brenas, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.4142° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.7567° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32km NNW of Brenas, 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 2017-03-26 10:37:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-26 12:19:26 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.54348075 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 223.2 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 pr17085003 Id of event.
Event Code 17085003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr17085003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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