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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Ponce in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9343S, -66.5755WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Ponce in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -66.5755° West, 17.9343° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was reported at 02:12:52 / 2:12 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 01/07/20 / 2020-07-01 02:12:52 / July 1, 2020 @ 2:12 am UTC/GMT. Event id: pr2020183008. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020183008.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 9 km (6 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Juan, Juncos, Moca (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty-two, in the past 30 days two hundred and twenty and in the last 365 days two thousand, three hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 9 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.5755° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9343° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9 km SSE of Ponce, 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 02:12:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-03 19:53:12 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 129 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1128 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 194 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 pr2020183008 Id of event.
Event Code 2020183008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020183008, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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