Minor earthquake, 2.82 mag has occurred near Luquillo in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) was reported 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Luquillo in Puerto Rico on Saturday. The 2.82-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:21:50 / 11:21 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2018335011. Event ids that are associated: pr2018335011. Global time and date of event 01/12/18 / 2018-12-01 15:21:50 / December 1, 2018 @ 3:21 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.5496 West, latitude 18.6126 North, depth = 72 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 72 km (45 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Toa Baja, Maunabo, Campanilla (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days three hundred and ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 31 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.82 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.5496° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.6126° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	72 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31km NNE of Luquillo, 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	2018-12-01 15:21:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-12-01 21:05:02	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	122	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	10	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.5576	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.32 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	307	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	pr2018335011	Id of event.
Event Code	2018335011	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018335011,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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