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Minor earthquake, 2.89 mag has occurred near Emajagua in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.4115S, -65.555WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) strikes 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Emajagua in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, -65.555° West, 17.4115° North, depth 22 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 22 km (14 miles). Global time and date of event 12/09/18 / 2018-09-12 03:30:22 / September 12, 2018 @ 3:30 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018255005. Id of event: pr2018255005. The temblor was picked up at 23:30:22 / 11:30 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Maunabo (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Maunabo (c. 2 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 73 km SSE of Emajagua, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.89 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.555° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.4115° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73km SSE of Emajagua, 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 2018-09-12 03:30:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-12 09:22:24 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 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7657 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 313 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 pr2018255005 Id of event.
Event Code 2018255005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018255005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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