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Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag has occurred near Indios in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9898S, -66.8285WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. The epicenter was at a depth of 13 km (8 miles). The 2.86-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:25:59 / 9:25 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020180042. Unique identifier: pr2020180042. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/06/20 / 2020-06-28 09:25:59 / June 28, 2020 @ 9:25 am. Exact location of event, longitude -66.8285 West, latitude 17.9898 North, depth = 13 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pájaros, Guayama, Toa Alta. Event epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 1 km WSW of Indios, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8285° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9898° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1 km WSW of Indios, 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 2020-06-28 09:25:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-29 18:13:39 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 0.0528 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 160 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 pr2020180042 Id of event.
Event Code 2020180042 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020180042, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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