Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near La Parguera in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from La Parguera in Puerto Rico. The temblor was detected at 19:18:42 / 7:18 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000aizi. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000aizi. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/07/20 / 2020-07-06 19:18:42 / July 6, 2020 @ 7:18 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -67.0063 West, latitude 17.9274 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Barceloneta, Salinas, Orocovis (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 43 km (26 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 6 km SE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico.

Arecibo Barceloneta La Parguera Mayaguez Orocovis Ponce Puerto Rico Salinas Yauco

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.0063° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9274° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km SE of La Parguera, 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	2020-07-06 19:18:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-07-07 21:03:54	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	0.055	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	224	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	us7000aizi	Id of event.
Event Code	7000aizi	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000aizi,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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