Minor earthquake, 2.88 mag was detected near Rincon in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) was reported 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Rincon in Puerto Rico on Thursday. Global time and date of event 03/05/18 / 2018-05-03 12:11:24 / May 3, 2018 @ 12:11 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.7101 West, latitude 18.4565 North, depth = 23 km. Id of earthquake: pr2018123007. Event ids that are associated: pr2018123007. The 2.88-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:11:24 / 7:11 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Sebastián, Punta Cana, Isabela (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days fourty-seven and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 50 km WNW of Rincon, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.88 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.7101° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.4565° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	23 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	50km WNW of Rincon, 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	2018-05-03 12:11:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-05-03 17:46:20	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	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	5	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.599	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	320	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	pr2018123007	Id of event.
Event Code	2018123007	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018123007,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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