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Minor earthquake, 2.98 mag strikes near Indios in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9548S, -66.823WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, depth 12 km, -66.823° West, 17.9548° North. Unique identifier: pr2020128019. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020128019. The temblor was picked up at 08:20:12 / 8:20 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12 km (7 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/05/20 / 2020-05-07 12:20:12 / May 7, 2020 @ 12:20 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pájaros, San Antonio, Toa Alta (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-nine, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty-five, in the past 30 days two hundred and fourty-seven and in the last 365 days two thousand and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each 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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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: 4 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.98 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.823° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9548° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km S 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 2020-05-07 12:20:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-12 19:04:26 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 137 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0598 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 203 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 pr2020128019 Id of event.
Event Code 2020128019 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020128019, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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