Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. Id of earthquake: us70007ke9. Event ids that are associated: us70007ke9. Exact location of event, longitude -66.7233 West, latitude 18.0059 North, depth = 6.28 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.28 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 15/01/20 / 2020-01-15 05:11:44 / January 15, 2020 @ 5:11 am UTC/GMT. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:11:44 / 1:11 am (local time epicenter).

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 Caguas, Guaynabo, Levittown. Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 1 km NNW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.7233° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.0059° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.28 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1km NNW of Tallaboa, 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	2020-01-15 05:11:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-12 13:36:09	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	0.045	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.51 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	140	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	us70007ke9	Id of event.
Event Code	70007ke9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70007ke9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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