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


Earthquake location 17.8219S, -66.8152WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, Puerto Rico region kilometers (0 miles) from Puerto Rico region. The temblor was detected at 12:43:28 / 12:43 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event id: usa0005z9d. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: usa0005z9d. Exact location, longitude -66.8152° West, latitude 17.8219° North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/01/20 / 2020-01-11 12:43:28 / January 11, 2020 @ 12:43 pm.

Event epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guayama, Comerío, Aguadilla. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven hundred and fourty-seven, in the last 10 days one thousand and three, in the past 30 days one thousand and fifty-two and in the last 365 days one thousand and eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8152° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8219° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Puerto Rico region 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 12:43:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-04 11:54:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 0.164 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 233 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 usa0005z9d Id of event.
Event Code a0005z9d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,usa0005z9d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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