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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Central Aguirre in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9554S, -66.2509WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Central Aguirre in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/11/15 / 2015-11-16 06:06:47 / November 16, 2015 @ 6:06 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: pr15320003. Event ids that are associated: pr15320003. The temblor was reported at 02:06:47 / 2:06 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -66.2509° West, 17.9554° North, depth 4 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sabana Grande, Lares, Arecibo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 2 km W of Central Aguirre, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.2509° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9554° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km W of Central Aguirre, 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 2015-11-16 06:06:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-16 06:40:05 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 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.22637545 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 194.4 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 pr15320003 Id of event.
Event Code 15320003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15320003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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