Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag was detected near H. Rivera Colon in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) strikes 2 kilometers (1 miles) from H. Rivera Colon in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/12/18 / 2018-12-12 09:27:53 / December 12, 2018 @ 9:27 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018346002. Id of event: pr2018346002. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 60 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -66.2486° West, latitude 18.3356° North, depth = 60 km. The 2.85-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:27:53 / 5:27 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Quebradillas, Yauco, Guayanilla (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 21 km (13 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 2 km ESE of H. Rivera Colon, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.85 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.2486° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.3356° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	60 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km ESE of H. Rivera Colon, 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	2018-12-12 09:27:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-12-12 11:57:28	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	125	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	10	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1671	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.11 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	161	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	pr2018346002	Id of event.
Event Code	2018346002	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018346002,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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