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Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag has occurred near Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9678S, -66.8581WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8581 West, latitude 17.9678 North, depth = 16 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020112016. Id of event: pr2020112016. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/04/20 / 2020-04-21 21:29:09 / April 21, 2020 @ 9:29 pm. The 2.85-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:29:09 / 5:29 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cidra, Ceiba, Cayey (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 39 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days fifty-six, in the past 30 days two hundred and twenty-nine and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 3 km ESE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8581° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9678° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km ESE 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 2020-04-21 21:29:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-21 22:06:58 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 125 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0223 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 199 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 pr2020112016 Id of event.
Event Code 2020112016 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020112016, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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