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

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from La Parguera in Puerto Rico. Unique identifier: us70007kf2. Ids that are associated to the event: us70007kf2. Exact location of earthquake, -67.042° West, 17.6842° North, depth 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/01/20 / 2020-01-16 21:07:58 / January 16, 2020 @ 9:07 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:07:58 / 5:07 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from San Germán (c. 12 100 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Villalba, Rincón, Jayuya.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 32 km S of La Parguera, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Adjuntas Jayuya La Parguera Mayaguez Ponce Puerto Rico Rincon San German Villalba Yauco

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.042° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.6842° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32km S of La Parguera, 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	2020-01-16 21:07:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-07 22:01:38	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	2.7	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	0.283	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.05 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	218	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	us70007kf2	Id of event.
Event Code	70007kf2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70007kf2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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