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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near La Parguera in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.8984S, -66.9917WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from La Parguera in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -66.9917° West, 17.8984° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us70007myj. Event ids that are associated: us70007myj. The temblor was picked up at 23:06:27 / 11:06 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/02/20 / 2020-02-11 03:06:27 / February 11, 2020 @ 3:06 am.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salinas, Ciales, Orocovis (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 10 km SE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.9917° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8984° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km SE of La Parguera, 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 2020-02-11 03:06:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-11 03:14:17 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 3.1 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 0.086 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 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 us70007myj Id of event.
Event Code 70007myj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007myj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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