Earthquake: M 2.5 quake strikes near Hatillo in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.5 (mg/mb) has striked on Thursday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Hatillo in Puerto Rico. The temblor was reported at 07:03:34 / 7:03 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 64 km (40 miles). Global time of event 2015-01-22 11:03:34 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -66.7502 West, latitude 18.7147 North, depth 64 km.

Close countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Juan, Peñuelas, Cataño.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.7502° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.7147° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	64 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26km NNE of Hatillo, 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	2015-01-22 11:03:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-01-22 11:35:02	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	96	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	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.31441035	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 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	pr15022001	Id of event.
Event Code	15022001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	pr15022001	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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