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

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 85 km WSW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico (53 miles) on Saturday. Exact location, longitude -67.9627° West, latitude 17.7845° North, depth = 58 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/10/15 / 2015-10-17 09:18:15 / October 17, 2015 @ 9:18 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 58 km (36 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: pr15290006. Unique identifier: pr15290006. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:18:15 / 4:18 am (local time epicenter).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 85 km WSW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.9627° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.7845° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	58 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	85km WSW of Pole Ojea, 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	2015-10-17 09:18:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-10-17 12:01:23	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	4	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.75278821	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	320.4	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	pr15290006	Id of event.
Event Code	15290006	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr15290006,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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