Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Potala Pastillo in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Potala Pastillo in Puerto Rico. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/06/20 / 2020-06-12 08:16:35 / June 12, 2020 @ 8:16 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.09 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -66.5673° West, 17.878° North, depth 1.09 km. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:16:35 / 8:16 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000aai7. Unique identifier: us6000aai7.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Quebradillas, Levittown, Gurabo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.5673° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.878° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.09 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14 km SSW of Potala Pastillo, 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	2020-06-12 08:16:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-06-12 08:21:47	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	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	0.14	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.32 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	206	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	us6000aai7	Id of event.
Event Code	6000aai7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000aai7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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