Minor earthquake, 2.82 mag was detected near Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico. Id of earthquake: pr2017182010. Event ids that are associated: pr2017182010. Exact location, longitude -66.5273° West, latitude 18.7633° North, depth = 95 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 01/07/17 / 2017-07-01 19:16:54 / July 1, 2017 @ 7:16 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 15:16:54 / 3:16 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 95 km (59 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Barbara, Aguadilla, Cidra (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 seventeen, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 33 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.82 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.5273° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.7633° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	95 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	33km 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	2017-07-01 19:16:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-07-02 00:13:33	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	122	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	4	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.8316	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	337	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	pr2017182010	Id of event.
Event Code	2017182010	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2017182010,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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