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

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Lajas in Puerto Rico. All ids that are associated to the event: usa000608e. Unique identifier: usa000608e. Exact location of event, longitude -67.0445 West, latitude 18.0301 North, depth = 6.17 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/01/20 / 2020-01-12 23:49:24 / January 12, 2020 @ 11:49 pm. The temblor was reported at 19:49:24 / 7:49 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.17 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 46 km (28 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Morovis, Manatí, Coamo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been six hundred and twelve, in the last 10 days nine hundred and twenty-one, in the past 30 days nine hundred and ninety-three and in the last 365 days one thousand, one hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 2 km SE of Lajas, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.0445° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.0301° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.17 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km SE of Lajas, 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	2020-01-12 23:49:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-01 21:54:38	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	4.3	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	0.022	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.69 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	71	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	usa000608e	Id of event.
Event Code	a000608e	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,usa000608e,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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