Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Santo Domingo in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Santo Domingo in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, longitude -66.7919 West, latitude 18.0693 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 05:27:53 / 5:27 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us60008561. Event ids that are associated: us60008561. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 27/02/20 / 2020-02-27 09:27:53 / February 27, 2020 @ 9:27 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Levittown, Bayamón, Aguas Buenas (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days one hundred and ten, in the past 30 days four hundred and nine and in the last 365 days one thousand, five hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 4 km W of Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.7919° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.0693° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km W of Santo Domingo, 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	2020-02-27 09:27:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-27 09:37:04	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	129	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	0.059	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.46 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	88	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	us60008561	Id of event.
Event Code	60008561	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60008561,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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