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Minor earthquake: M2.99 quake has struck near Pole Ojea in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.841S, -67.9286WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) strikes 80 km W of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico (50 miles) on Tuesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/01/18 / 2018-01-16 09:19:30 / January 16, 2018 @ 9:19 am. Exact location of event, longitude -67.9286 West, latitude 17.841 North, depth = 126 km. Unique identifier: pr2018016002. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018016002. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 126 km (78 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 04:19:30 / 4:19 am (local time epicenter).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 80 km W of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.99 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.9286° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.841° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 126 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80km W of Pole Ojea, 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 2018-01-16 09:19:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-16 14:08:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 138 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.8355 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 224 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 pr2018016002 Id of event.
Event Code 2018016002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018016002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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