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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 23 km WNW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.1568S, -67.3883WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Puerto Real in Puerto Rico on Monday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/02/18 / 2018-02-05 17:44:06 / February 5, 2018 @ 5:44 pm. Event id: pr2018036006. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018036006. Exact location of earthquake, -67.3883° West, 18.1568° North, depth 15 km. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:44:06 / 1:44 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 15 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Utuado, Peñuelas, Adjuntas (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

Questions or comments?

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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 23 km WNW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.3883° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.1568° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km WNW of Puerto Real, 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 2018-02-05 17:44:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-05 18:06:44 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 121 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3031 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 281 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 pr2018036006 Id of event.
Event Code 2018036006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018036006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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