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Minor earthquake 2.84 mag, 4 km WNW of San Juan, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.4793S, -66.1428WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from San Juan in Puerto Rico. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 81 km (50 miles). Event id: pr2017158000. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2017158000. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/06/17 / 2017-06-07 00:27:02 / June 7, 2017 @ 12:27 am. Exact location of earthquake, -66.1428° West, 18.4793° North, depth 81 km. The 2.84-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:27:02 / 8:27 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Peñuelas, Camuy, Ponce (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 4 km (3 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 9 km (6 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 4 km WNW of San Juan, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.1428° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.4793° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km WNW 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 2017-06-07 00:27:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-08 00:47:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 124 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 3 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3535 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 203 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 pr2017158000 Id of event.
Event Code 2017158000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2017158000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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