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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near San Juan in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.1082S, -66.0998WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 71 kilometers (44 miles) from San Juan in Puerto Rico. The temblor was picked up at 18:47:06 / 6:47 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -66.0998° West, 19.1082° North, depth 24 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24 km (15 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr16184026. Unique identifier: pr16184026. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/07/16 / 2016-07-02 22:47:06 / July 2, 2016 @ 10:47 pm.

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Antonio, Sabana Seca, Toa Baja (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Cataño (c. 28 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Dorado (c. 13 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from San Antonio (c. 6 500 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days five hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 71 km N of San Juan, 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 -66.0998° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1082° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71km N of San Juan, 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 2016-07-02 22:47:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-02 23:48:57 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 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.79500903 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 252 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 pr16184026 Id of event.
Event Code 16184026 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16184026, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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