Minor earthquake: M2.91 quake has struck near Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) was reported 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.449 West, latitude 19.0626 North, depth = 31 km. Event id: pr2017177003. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2017177003. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/06/17 / 2017-06-26 01:48:03 / June 26, 2017 @ 1:48 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 31 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.91-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:48:03 / 9:48 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Camuy, Sabana Seca, Candelaria Arenas (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.91 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.449° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.0626° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	31 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	66km 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	2017-06-26 01:48:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-06-30 02:41:55	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	130	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	0.7782	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.06 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	350	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	pr2017177003	Id of event.
Event Code	2017177003	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2017177003,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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