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Minor earthquake, 2.81 mag was detected near Barceloneta in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.468S, -66.549WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Barceloneta in Puerto Rico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 92 km (57 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 92 km, -66.549° West, 18.468° North. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018119002. Unique identifier: pr2018119002. Global time and date of event 29/04/18 / 2018-04-29 15:58:05 / April 29, 2018 @ 3:58 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 11:58:05 / 11:58 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Río Grande, Patillas, Arroyo (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 47 km (29 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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 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: 2 km NNW of Barceloneta, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.81 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.549° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.468° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km NNW of Barceloneta, 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 2018-04-29 15:58:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-29 20:57:49 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 121 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0214 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 153 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 pr2018119002 Id of event.
Event Code 2018119002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018119002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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