Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Guanica in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 17.87 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/03/20 / 2020-03-17 20:33:32 / March 17, 2020 @ 8:33 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -66.8618 West, latitude 17.8384 North, depth = 17.87 km. Event id: us60008hcl. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60008hcl. The temblor was picked up at 16:33:32 / 4:33 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Manatí, Barceloneta, Isabela (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two hundred and thirty-two, in the last 10 days two hundred and eighty-nine, in the past 30 days four hundred and sixty-two and in the last 365 days one thousand, seven hundred and seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 15 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8618° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.8384° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	17.87 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km SSE of Guanica, 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	2020-03-17 20:33:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-10 16:15:02	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	0.194	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.33 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	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us60008hcl	Id of event.
Event Code	60008hcl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60008hcl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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