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Minor earthquake, 2.98 mag has occurred near San Juan in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.1481S, -66.1718WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from San Juan in Puerto Rico. The temblor was detected at 18:19:26 / 6:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.1718 West, latitude 19.1481 North, depth = 30 km. Id of earthquake: pr2018278012. Event ids that are associated: pr2018278012. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/10/18 / 2018-10-05 22:19:26 / October 5, 2018 @ 10:19 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 30 km (19 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cataño, Ingenio, Levittown (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Cataño (c. 28 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Dorado (c. 13 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Ingenio (c. 5 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 75 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.98 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.1718° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1481° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km N of San Juan, 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 2018-10-05 22:19:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-06 00:58:47 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 137 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 0.9905 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 307 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 pr2018278012 Id of event.
Event Code 2018278012 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018278012, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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