Minor earthquake, 2.88 mag was detected near Ponce in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Ponce in Puerto Rico on Saturday. The 2.88-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:47:18 / 6:47 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 11/01/20 / 2020-01-11 10:47:18 / January 11, 2020 @ 10:47 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11 km (7 miles). Exact location, longitude -66.575° West, latitude 17.9° North, depth = 11 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020011082. Unique identifier: pr2020011082.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cataño, Yabucoa, Gurabo (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 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 one hundred and twenty-seven, in the last 10 days three hundred and twenty-five, in the past 30 days three hundred and seventy-three and in the last 365 days four hundred and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. 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: 12 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.88 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.575° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km SSE of Ponce, 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	2020-01-11 10:47:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-13 19:19:10	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	10	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1462	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.22 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	209	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	pr2020011082	Id of event.
Event Code	2020011082	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020011082,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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