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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Guánica in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.828S, -66.8678WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Guánica in Puerto Rico. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020167011. Unique identifier: pr2020167011. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -66.8678° West, 17.828° North, depth 7 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/06/20 / 2020-06-15 06:44:29 / June 15, 2020 @ 6:44 am. The temblor was reported at 06:44:29 / 6:44 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Isabela, Morovis, Arecibo (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days fifty-five, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifty-seven and in the last 365 days two thousand, one hundred and seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 16 km SSE of Guánica, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8678° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.828° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16 km SSE of Guánica, 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 2020-06-15 06:44:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-15 08:02:05 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 121 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 0.1475 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 241 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 pr2020167011 Id of event.
Event Code 2020167011 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020167011, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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