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Minor earthquake: M2.84 quake has struck near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9388S, -66.7635WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, longitude -66.7635 West, latitude 17.9388 North, depth = 12 km. Event id: pr2020053021. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020053021. Global time and date of event 22/02/20 / 2020-02-22 08:18:11 / February 22, 2020 @ 8:18 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.84-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:18:11 / 4:18 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Campanilla, Pájaros, San Antonio. The epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days one hundred and five, in the past 30 days four hundred and fifty-four and in the last 365 days one thousand, three hundred and eighty-six 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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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. 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: 7 km SW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7635° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9388° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km SW 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 2020-02-22 08:18:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-22 08:31:47 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 124 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1213 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 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 md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr2020053021 Id of event.
Event Code 2020053021 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020053021, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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