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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Camuy in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.5076S, -66.8703WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Camuy in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8703 West, latitude 18.5076 North, depth = 91 km. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:15:04 / 9:15 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/04/16 / 2016-04-10 01:15:04 / April 10, 2016 @ 1:15 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 91 km (57 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16101001. Id of event: pr16101001.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bayamón, Aibonito, Comerío (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 3 km NW of Camuy, 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 -66.8703° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.5076° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km NW of Camuy, 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 2016-04-10 01:15:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-10 04:43:57 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.19493442 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 190.8 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 pr16101001 Id of event.
Event Code 16101001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16101001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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