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


Earthquake location 17.8935S, -66.8366WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/03/20 / 2020-03-10 13:34:44 / March 10, 2020 @ 1:34 pm. The temblor was picked up at 09:34:44 / 9:34 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -66.8366° West, 17.8935° North. Event id: pr2020070015. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020070015.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Naranjito, Guayama, Cayey (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days seventy-eight, in the past 30 days two hundred and eighty-six and in the last 365 days one thousand, five hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8366° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8935° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km SSE of Maria Antonia, 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 2020-03-10 13:34:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-10 16:47:07 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.092 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 248 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 pr2020070015 Id of event.
Event Code 2020070015 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020070015, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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