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Minor earthquake, 2.88 mag strikes near Ponce in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.93S, -66.6425WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Ponce in Puerto Rico. The temblor was reported at 02:25:05 / 2:25 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2020028016. Event ids that are associated: pr2020028016. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8 km (5 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 28/01/20 / 2020-01-28 06:25:05 / January 28, 2020 @ 6:25 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.6425 West, latitude 17.93 North, depth = 8 km.

Epicenter of the event was 73 km (45 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguada, Levittown, Isabela (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-eight, in the last 10 days two hundred and seventy-seven, in the past 30 days eight hundred and fifty-five and in the last 365 days nine hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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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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 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: 9 km SSW of Ponce, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.6425° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.93° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km SSW 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 2020-01-28 06:25:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-29 16:20:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1185 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 206 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 pr2020028016 Id of event.
Event Code 2020028016 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020028016, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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