Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Luquillo in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 81 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico (50 miles). Exact location of event, depth 39 km, -65.4359° West, 19.061° North. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:02:32 / 12:02 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr16123004. Unique identifier: pr16123004. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/05/16 / 2016-05-02 16:02:32 / May 2, 2016 @ 4:02 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 39 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days eight hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 81 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.4359° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.061° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	39 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	81km NNE of Luquillo, 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	2016-05-02 16:02:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-02 19:25:56	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	5	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.76356799	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	291.6	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	pr16123004	Id of event.
Event Code	16123004	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16123004,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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