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Minor earthquake, 2.88 mag was detected near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.8986S, -66.668WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico on Friday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/02/20 / 2020-02-07 14:43:22 / February 7, 2020 @ 2:43 pm. Unique identifier: pr2020038016. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020038016. The temblor was reported at 10:43:22 / 10:43 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -66.668 West, latitude 17.8986 North, depth = 8 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8 km (5 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Isabela, Aguada, Ingenio. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 14 km (9 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop).

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

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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. 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: 11 km SSE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.668° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8986° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km SSE of Tallaboa, 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 2020-02-07 14:43:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-07 14:58:51 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 2.7 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 128 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1569 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 213 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 pr2020038016 Id of event.
Event Code 2020038016 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020038016, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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