Minor earthquake, 2.83 mag was detected near Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico. The temblor was reported at 14:59:38 / 2:59 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.4788 West, latitude 18.9975 North, depth = 35 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Event id: pr2017175015. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2017175015. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/06/17 / 2017-06-24 18:59:38 / June 24, 2017 @ 6:59 pm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Quebradillas, Pájaros, Morovis. Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop). 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days two hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 59 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.83 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.4788° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.9975° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	59km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, 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	2017-06-24 18:59:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-06-25 03:14:26	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	123	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	0.7066	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.33 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	278	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	pr2017175015	Id of event.
Event Code	2017175015	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2017175015,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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