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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Indios in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9712S, -66.8319WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. The temblor was detected at 05:47:25 / 5:47 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/01/20 / 2020-01-07 09:47:25 / January 7, 2020 @ 9:47 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: usa0006bmc. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: usa0006bmc. Exact location of event, longitude -66.8319 West, latitude 17.9712 North, depth = 10 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 23 km (15 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Toa Alta, San Antonio, Guayama (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight hundred and seventy-eight, in the last 10 days nine hundred and thirty-nine, in the past 30 days nine hundred and fifty-three and in the last 365 days one thousand and sixteen 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 2 km SSW of Indios, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8319° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9712° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km SSW of Indios, 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 2020-01-07 09:47:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-31 12:36:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 121 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.226 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 198 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID usa0006bmc Id of event.
Event Code a0006bmc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,usa0006bmc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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