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Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag has occurred near Arecibo in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.9746S, -66.6768WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Arecibo in Puerto Rico. The epicenter was at a depth of 28 km (17 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019130002. Unique identifier: pr2019130002. The temblor was detected at 01:10:02 / 1:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 28 km, -66.6768° West, 18.9746° North. Global time and date of event 10/05/19 / 2019-05-10 05:10:02 / May 10, 2019 @ 5:10 am UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Dorado (c. 13 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Campanilla, Ingenio, Ciales.

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days two hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 55 km N of Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.6768° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9746° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55km N of Arecibo, 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 2019-05-10 05:10:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-10 08:32:31 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 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6327 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 308 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 pr2019130002 Id of event.
Event Code 2019130002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019130002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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