Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Brenas in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 81 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico (50 miles) on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 31 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -66.4304 West, latitude 19.2014 North, depth = 31 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/05/16 / 2016-05-27 00:17:15 / May 27, 2016 @ 12:17 am. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:17:15 / 8:17 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr16148001. Event ids that are associated: pr16148001.

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 81 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.4304° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.2014° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	31 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	81km N of Brenas, 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	2016-05-27 00:17:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-27 03:21:54	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	11	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.72583875	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	262.8	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	pr16148001	Id of event.
Event Code	16148001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16148001,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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