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Minor earthquake, 2.83 mag has occurred near Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.991S, -66.5278WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico. Id of earthquake: pr2017175020. Event ids that are associated: pr2017175020. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 51 km (32 miles). Global time and date of event 24/06/17 / 2017-06-24 21:37:27 / June 24, 2017 @ 9:37 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -66.5278 West, latitude 18.991 North, depth = 51 km. The 2.83-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:37:27 / 5:37 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bayamón, Pájaros, Corozal (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days two hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 58 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.83 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.5278° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.991° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, 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 2017-06-24 21:37:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-25 03:08:10 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 123 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6829 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 279 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 pr2017175020 Id of event.
Event Code 2017175020 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2017175020, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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