Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Culebra in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/05/18 / 2018-05-22 19:25:40 / May 22, 2018 @ 7:25 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:25:40 / 3:25 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: pr2018142014. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018142014. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 25 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 25 km, -65.2496° West, 18.2448° North.

The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Humacao (c. 20 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gurabo, Carolina, San Lorenzo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 8 km SE of Culebra, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.2496° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.2448° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	25 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km SE of Culebra, 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	2018-05-22 19:25:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-05-23 00:52:14	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	129	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	7	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.608	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.24 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	pr2018142014	Id of event.
Event Code	2018142014	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018142014,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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