Minor earthquake: M2.89 quake has struck near Pole Ojea in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) strikes 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Pole Ojea in Puerto Rico on Saturday. Event id: pr2020060021. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020060021, us600086w4. Exact location of event, depth 64 km, -67.8261° West, 18.1265° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 64 km (40 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/02/20 / 2020-02-29 12:19:05 / February 29, 2020 @ 12:19 pm. The 2.89-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:19:05 / 7:19 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 73 km (45 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Cabo Rojo (c. 10 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Puerto Real (c. 6 200 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Añasco, Hormigueros, Mayagüez (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 80 km WSW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.89 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.8261° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.1265° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	64 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	80km WSW of Pole Ojea, 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	2020-02-29 12:19:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-29 14:04:41	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	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	128	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,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.4323	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	196	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	pr2020060021	Id of event.
Event Code	2020060021	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020060021,us600086w4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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