Minor earthquake, 2.84 mag strikes near Guanica in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12 km (7 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/01/20 / 2020-01-17 02:14:36 / January 17, 2020 @ 2:14 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8701 West, latitude 17.865 North, depth = 12 km. Unique identifier: pr2020017035. Ids that are associated to the event: us700071ez, pr2020017035. The 2.84-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:14:36 / 10:14 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Manatí, Barceloneta, Isabela. Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and ninety-six, in the last 10 days five hundred and eighty-two, in the past 30 days six hundred and eighty-one and in the last 365 days seven hundred and twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 18 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.84 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8701° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.865° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18km SSE of Guanica, 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	2020-01-17 02:14:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-22 00:31:49	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	124	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	,us,pr,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1105	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.08 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	248	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	pr2020017035	Id of event.
Event Code	2020017035	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us700071ez,pr2020017035,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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