Earthquake: M 2.7 quake strikes near Culebra in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.7 (mg/mb) has striked on Monday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico. The temblor was reported at 10:21:59 / 10:21 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 62 km (39 miles). Global time of event 2014-12-30 02:21:59 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -65.3862 West, latitude 18.8754 North, depth 62 km.

Close countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Río Grande (c. 13 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Luquillo (c. 8 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from San Isidro (c. 8 100 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Ceiba (c. 6 300 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Isidro, Ceiba, Río Grande.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.3862° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.8754° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	62 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	63km 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	2014-12-30 02:21:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2014-12-30 04:22:13	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		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	112	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	3	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.74829663	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.07 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	334.8	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	pr14364001	Id of event.
Event Code	14364001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	pr14364001	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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