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Minor earthquake, 2.92 mag has occurred near Luquillo in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.6431S, -65.5001WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) strikes 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Luquillo in Puerto Rico on Friday. Event id: pr2018047001. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018047001. The temblor was detected at 00:07:45 / 12:07 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 81 km, -65.5001° West, 18.6431° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/02/18 / 2018-02-16 04:07:45 / February 16, 2018 @ 4:07 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 81 km (50 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yabucoa, Aguas Buenas, Sabana Seca (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 67 km (42 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop). Close 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days fourty-one and in the last 365 days three hundred and ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 37 km NE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.92 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.5001° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.6431° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km NE of Luquillo, 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 2018-02-16 04:07:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-16 07:07:02 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 131 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6105 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 317 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 pr2018047001 Id of event.
Event Code 2018047001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018047001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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