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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Celada in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.2971S, -66.0085WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Celada in Puerto Rico. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/12/15 / 2015-12-23 19:32:55 / December 23, 2015 @ 7:32 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 127 km (79 miles). The temblor was reported at 15:32:55 / 3:32 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15357003. Id of event: pr15357003. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.0085 West, latitude 18.2971 North, depth = 127 km.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arecibo, Adjuntas, Adjuntas (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km WNW of Celada, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.0085° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2971° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 127 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km WNW of Celada, 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 2015-12-23 19:32:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-23 20:16:31 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 129 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07186522 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 165.6 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 pr15357003 Id of event.
Event Code 15357003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15357003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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