Minor earthquake: M2.83 quake has struck near Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.862 West, latitude 17.9503 North, depth = 9 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020049018. Unique identifier: pr2020049018. The temblor was reported at 08:31:08 / 8:31 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/02/20 / 2020-02-18 12:31:08 / February 18, 2020 @ 12:31 pm.

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 Ceiba, Vega Alta, Naranjito. Event epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 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, in the last 10 days one hundred and nine, in the past 30 days five hundred and twenty-one and in the last 365 days one thousand, three hundred and fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 4 km SE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.83 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.862° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9503° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km SE of Maria Antonia, 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	2020-02-18 12:31:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-18 13:02:53	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	123	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	0.0302	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.09 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	215	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	pr2020049018	Id of event.
Event Code	2020049018	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020049018,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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