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


Earthquake location 18.0153S, -65.4196WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Esperanza in Puerto Rico on Monday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 20 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.4196 West, latitude 18.0153 North, depth = 20 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/07/19 / 2019-07-01 19:44:54 / July 1, 2019 @ 7:44 pm. The 2.86-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:44:54 / 3:44 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2019182015. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019182015.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguas Buenas, Cruz Bay, Guayama (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 10 km SSE of Esperanza, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.4196° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0153° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km SSE of Esperanza, 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 2019-07-01 19:44:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-02 06:09:11 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4476 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 331 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 pr2019182015 Id of event.
Event Code 2019182015 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019182015, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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