Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag was detected near San Juan in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) strikes 96 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico (60 miles) on Monday. The temblor was detected at 01:47:45 / 1:47 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.9488 West, latitude 19.3215 North, depth = 97 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 97 km (60 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 12/03/18 / 2018-03-12 05:47:45 / March 12, 2018 @ 5:47 am UTC/GMT. Event id: pr2018071003. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018071003.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-eight, in the past 30 days fifty-three and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 96 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.85 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.9488° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.3215° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	97 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	96km N of San Juan, 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	2018-03-12 05:47:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-12 08:22:18	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	125	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	1.2644	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.09 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	347	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	pr2018071003	Id of event.
Event Code	2018071003	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018071003,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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