Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag was detected near Jauca in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Jauca in Puerto Rico. The 2.86-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:48:55 / 8:48 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: pr2020153011. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020153011. Global time and date of event 01/06/20 / 2020-06-01 08:48:55 / June 1, 2020 @ 8:48 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 8 km, -66.3398° West, 17.9618° North.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lajas, Las Marías, San Germán. The epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days fifty-five, in the past 30 days two hundred and twenty and in the last 365 days two thousand and ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 2 km ESE of Jauca, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.86 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.3398° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9618° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2 km ESE of Jauca, 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	2020-06-01 08:48:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-06-01 09:41:59	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	23	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.233	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.34 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	182	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	pr2020153011	Id of event.
Event Code	2020153011	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020153011,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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