Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Luquillo in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Luquillo in Puerto Rico. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 64 km (40 miles). The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:47:53 / 6:47 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019037022. Unique identifier: pr2019037022. Global time and date of event 06/02/19 / 2019-02-06 22:47:53 / February 6, 2019 @ 10:47 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.4768 West, latitude 18.9645 North, depth = 64 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Isidro, Culebra, Río Grande. The epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Río Grande (c. 13 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Luquillo (c. 8 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from San Isidro (c. 8 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Loíza (c. 4 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days fourty-three and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 70 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.4768° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.9645° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	64 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	70km 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	2019-02-06 22:47:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-02-06 23:39:46	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	3	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.0923	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.33 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	325	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	pr2019037022	Id of event.
Event Code	2019037022	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019037022,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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