Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Aguadilla in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 78 km NW of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico (48 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr15204019. Unique identifier: pr15204019. Exact location of event, longitude -67.7127 West, latitude 18.8925 North, depth = 5 km. Global time and date of event 23/07/15 / 2015-07-23 13:08:00 / July 23, 2015 @ 1:08 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 08:08:00 / 8:08 am (local time epicenter).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days sixty, in the past 30 days sixty-seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-one 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.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 78 km NW of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.7127° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.8925° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	78km NW of Aguadilla, 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	2015-07-23 13:08:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-23 15:48:21	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	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	0.55156558	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.51 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	226.8	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	pr15204019	Id of event.
Event Code	15204019	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr15204019,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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