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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Indios in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9947S, -66.8223WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/02/20 / 2020-02-17 04:51:59 / February 17, 2020 @ 4:51 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70007rn6. Id of event: us70007rn6. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 00:51:59 / 12:51 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -66.8223° West, 17.9947° North.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 22 km (14 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pájaros, Guayama, Toa Alta (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty-eight, in the past 30 days five hundred and sixty-five and in the last 365 days one thousand, three hundred and sixty-two 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 quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 0 km WNW of Indios, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8223° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9947° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 0km WNW of Indios, 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 2020-02-17 04:51:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-17 05:03:30 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 0.052 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 167 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 us70007rn6 Id of event.
Event Code 70007rn6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007rn6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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