Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Guayanilla in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Guayanilla in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -66.7784° West, 17.9695° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/01/20 / 2020-01-08 14:12:20 / January 8, 2020 @ 2:12 pm. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:12:20 / 10:12 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: usa0006c06. Ids that are associated to the event: usa0006c06.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Candelaria, Dorado, Campanilla.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven hundred and seventy-seven, in the last 10 days eight hundred and ninety-one, in the past 30 days nine hundred and twenty-eight and in the last 365 days nine hundred and eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 5 km SSE of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.7784° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9695° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km SSE of Guayanilla, 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	2020-01-08 14:12:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-31 09:29:27	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	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.179	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.35 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	198	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	usa0006c06	Id of event.
Event Code	a0006c06	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,usa0006c06,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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