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

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Guánica in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. Id of earthquake: pr2020183002. Event ids that are associated: us7000aftx, pr2020183002. Exact time and date of earthquake 01/07/20 / 2020-07-01 12:17:08 / July 1, 2020 @ 12:17 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 12:17:08 / 12:17 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -66.923° West, latitude 17.9413° North, depth = 12 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 34 km (21 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aibonito, Barranquitas, Manatí (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days one hundred, in the past 30 days one hundred and ninety and in the last 365 days two thousand, three hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 3 km SSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.923° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9413° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3 km SSW 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	2020-07-01 12:17:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-07-01 13:01:18	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	,us,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	0.0553	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	217	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	pr2020183002	Id of event.
Event Code	2020183002	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000aftx,pr2020183002,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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