Minor earthquake, 2.81 mag was detected near Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, depth 90 km, -66.5486° West, 18.6956° North. The 2.81-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:27:22 / 7:27 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018346006. Id of event: pr2018346006. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 90 km (56 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/12/18 / 2018-12-12 23:27:22 / December 12, 2018 @ 11:27 pm.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Canovanas, Cayey, Ponce (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop). Nearby 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 26 km NNW of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.81 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.5486° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.6956° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	90 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26km NNW of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, 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	2018-12-12 23:27:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-12-13 05:05:13	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	121	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	3	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.4049	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.68 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	318	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	pr2018346006	Id of event.
Event Code	2018346006	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018346006,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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