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Minor earthquake 2.88 mag, 10 km SSW of Capitanejo, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9223S, -66.5715WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Capitanejo in Puerto Rico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4 km (2 miles). Exact location, longitude -66.5715° West, latitude 17.9223° North, depth = 4 km. Global time and date of event 12/06/20 / 2020-06-12 08:20:16 / June 12, 2020 @ 8:20 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr2020164007. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020164007. The 2.88-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:20:16 / 8:20 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Juncos, Trujillo Alto, Cataño. Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days twenty-nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-five and in the last 365 days two thousand, one hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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: 10 km SSW of Capitanejo, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.5715° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9223° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10 km SSW of Capitanejo, 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 2020-06-12 08:20:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-12 08:49:36 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 128 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1254 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 193 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 pr2020164007 Id of event.
Event Code 2020164007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020164007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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