Minor earthquake, 2.83 mag was detected near Culebra in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico. The epicenter was at a depth of 19 km (12 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -65.2021° West, 18.8376° North, depth 19 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/12/18 / 2018-12-27 12:48:33 / December 27, 2018 @ 12:48 pm. The temblor was reported at 08:48:33 / 8:48 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018361010. Unique identifier: pr2018361010.

Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Luquillo (c. 8 300 pop). 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). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tortola, Road Town, Luquillo.

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days thirty-three and in the last 365 days five hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. 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: 60 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.83 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.2021° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.8376° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	19 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	60km N 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	2018-12-27 12:48:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-12-27 17:32:53	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	123	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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.9497	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	323	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	pr2018361010	Id of event.
Event Code	2018361010	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018361010,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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