Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag has occurred near Guayanilla in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Guayanilla in Puerto Rico. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/06/20 / 2020-06-05 04:33:53 / June 5, 2020 @ 4:33 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020157002. Unique identifier: pr2020157002. The temblor was reported at 04:33:53 / 4:33 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -66.804° West, latitude 18.0393° North, depth = 15 km.

Epicenter of the event was 20 km (13 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ingenio, Candelaria Arenas, Candelaria (min 5000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 2 km NNW of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.85 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.804° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.0393° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	15 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2 km NNW of Guayanilla, 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	2020-06-05 04:33:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-06-05 05:16:47	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	23	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0989	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.21 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	100	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	pr2020157002	Id of event.
Event Code	2020157002	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020157002,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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