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

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico on Saturday. The epicenter was at a depth of 37 km (23 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/08/15 / 2015-08-08 14:35:13 / August 8, 2015 @ 2:35 pm. Unique identifier: pr15220012. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15220012. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:35:13 / 10:35 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -65.2109° West, 18.8092° North, depth 37 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Luquillo (c. 8 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ceiba, Tortola, Road Town (min 5000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 56 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.2109° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.8092° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	37 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	56km N of Culebra, 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	2015-08-08 14:35:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-08 18:34:32	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	5	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.50305656	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.05 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	241.2	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	pr15220012	Id of event.
Event Code	15220012	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr15220012,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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