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Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag was detected near Puerto Rico region


Earthquake location 17.9588S, -66.8156WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) strikes Puerto Rico region kilometers (0 miles) from Puerto Rico region on Wednesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/04/20 / 2020-04-22 05:10:25 / April 22, 2020 @ 5:10 am. The temblor was picked up at 05:10:25 / 5:10 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -66.8156° West, 17.9588° North, depth 10 km. Unique identifier: pr2020113002. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020113002.

Earthquake epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Antonio, Toa Alta, Guayama (min 5000 pop).

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

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8156° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9588° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Puerto Rico region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-22 05:10:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-22 05:35:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 126 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0657 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 184 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 pr2020113002 Id of event.
Event Code 2020113002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020113002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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