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Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag was detected near Stella in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.201S, -67.8286WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) strikes 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Stella in Puerto Rico on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 122 km (76 miles). The temblor was picked up at 05:51:48 / 5:51 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -67.8286° West, latitude 18.201° North, depth = 122 km. Global time and date of event 15/10/18 / 2018-10-15 10:51:48 / October 15, 2018 @ 10:51 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr2018288005. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018288005.

Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Cabo Rojo (c. 10 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguadilla, Hormigueros, Punta Cana. Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 62 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.8286° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.201° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 122 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km WSW of Stella, 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 2018-10-15 10:51:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-15 12:21:20 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 126 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3947 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 194 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 pr2018288005 Id of event.
Event Code 2018288005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018288005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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