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Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag strikes near Potala Pastillo in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9196S, -66.5705WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Potala Pastillo in Puerto Rico on Thursday. Id of earthquake: pr2020184031. Event ids that are associated: pr2020184031. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -66.5705° West, 17.9196° North. The temblor was detected at 14:57:45 / 2:57 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 02/07/20 / 2020-07-02 14:57:45 / July 2, 2020 @ 2:57 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Juncos, Trujillo Alto, Cataño. Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eighty-five, in the last 10 days one hundred and eighty-eight, in the past 30 days two hundred and seventy-four and in the last 365 days two thousand, three hundred and eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 11 km SW of Potala Pastillo, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.5705° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9196° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11 km SW 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 2020-07-02 14:57:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-07 13:05:01 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 127 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1283 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 193 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 pr2020184031 Id of event.
Event Code 2020184031 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020184031, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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