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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9173S, -66.8494WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/01/20 / 2020-01-11 20:47:54 / January 11, 2020 @ 8:47 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us60007kyv. Event ids that are associated: us60007kyv. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:47:54 / 4:47 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -66.8494° West, 17.9173° North.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Naranjito, Vega Baja, Cayey (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been six hundred and fourty-seven, in the last 10 days eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the past 30 days nine hundred and twenty and in the last 365 days nine hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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.

Questions or comments?

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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 7 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8494° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9173° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km SSE of Maria Antonia, 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 2020-01-11 20:47:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-31 02:23:56 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 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 0.064 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 209 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 us60007kyv Id of event.
Event Code 60007kyv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007kyv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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