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Minor earthquake: M2.91 quake has struck near Los Llanos in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.0421S, -66.4068WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Los Llanos in Puerto Rico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 09:52:12 / 9:52 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -66.4068° West, 18.0421° North, depth 14 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/03/20 / 2020-03-17 13:52:12 / March 17, 2020 @ 1:52 pm. Unique identifier: pr2020077016. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020077016.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hormigueros, Quebradillas, Naguabo. Epicenter of the event was 57 km (35 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days sixty-seven, in the past 30 days two hundred and fourty and in the last 365 days one thousand, five hundred and sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 1 km S of Los Llanos, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.91 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.4068° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0421° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km S of Los Llanos, 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 2020-03-17 13:52:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-17 14:10:45 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 130 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1994 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 183 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 pr2020077016 Id of event.
Event Code 2020077016 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020077016, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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