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Minor earthquake, 2.88 mag has occurred near Lamboglia in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.7861S, -65.9531WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) was reported 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Lamboglia in Puerto Rico on Thursday. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2017244000. Unique identifier: pr2017244000. The 2.88-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:18:22 / 9:18 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 2 km (1 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.9531 West, latitude 17.7861 North, depth = 2 km. Global time and date of event 01/09/17 / 2017-09-01 01:18:22 / September 1, 2017 @ 1:18 am UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Morovis, Campanilla, Candelaria Arenas (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 21 km S of Lamboglia, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.9531° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.7861° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km S of Lamboglia, 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 2017-09-01 01:18:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-01 02:19:01 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 128 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2361 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 231 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 pr2017244000 Id of event.
Event Code 2017244000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2017244000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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