Minor earthquake: M2.82 quake has struck near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/03/20 / 2020-03-19 19:44:14 / March 19, 2020 @ 7:44 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -66.7423° West, 18.0045° North, depth 18 km. The 2.82-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:44:14 / 3:44 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020079033. Id of event: pr2020079033. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Levittown, Patillas, Bayamón (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 14 km (8 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 2 km WNW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.82 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.7423° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.0045° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	18 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km WNW 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	2020-03-19 19:44:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-03-19 22:05:39	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	122	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	7	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.14	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	185	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	pr2020079033	Id of event.
Event Code	2020079033	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020079033,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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