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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Brenas in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.5141S, -66.3583WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Brenas in Puerto Rico. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/07/18 / 2018-07-02 09:50:22 / July 2, 2018 @ 9:50 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 118 km (73 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018183008. Unique identifier: pr2018183008. The temblor was picked up at 05:50:22 / 5:50 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -66.3583° West, latitude 18.5141° North, depth = 118 km.

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Maricao, Punta Santiago, Yauco (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 27 km (17 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days two hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km NNW of Brenas, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.3583° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.5141° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 118 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km NNW of Brenas, 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 2018-07-02 09:50:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-02 12:17:07 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4296 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 220 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 pr2018183008 Id of event.
Event Code 2018183008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018183008, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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