Minor earthquake, 2.89 mag was detected near Ponce in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) was reported 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Ponce in Puerto Rico on Friday. Exact location of event, longitude -66.5876 West, latitude 17.9366 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/03/20 / 2020-03-20 21:15:23 / March 20, 2020 @ 9:15 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020080029. Id of event: pr2020080029. The temblor was picked up at 17:15:23 / 5:15 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Trujillo Alto, Yabucoa, Moca (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 69 km (43 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 9 km (5 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 8 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.89 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.5876° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9366° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km SSE of Ponce, 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	2020-03-20 21:15:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-03-20 21:26:17	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	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,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	5	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1078	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	205	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	pr2020080029	Id of event.
Event Code	2020080029	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020080029,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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