Minor earthquake, 2.89 mag was detected near La Parguera in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from La Parguera in Puerto Rico on Saturday. Exact location, longitude -66.9966° West, latitude 17.9561° North, depth = 5 km. The 2.89-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:39:36 / 8:39 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020186032. Unique identifier: pr2020186032. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/07/20 / 2020-07-04 08:39:36 / July 4, 2020 @ 8:39 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Manatí, Morovis, Salinas. The epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been ninety-one, in the last 10 days one hundred and eighty-eight, in the past 30 days two hundred and ninety-three and in the last 365 days two thousand, four hundred and fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 5 km ESE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico.

Arecibo Barceloneta La Parguera Manatí Mayaguez Morovis Ponce Puerto Rico Salinas Yauco

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.89 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.9966° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9561° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5 km ESE 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	2020-07-04 08:39:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-07-11 09:16:42	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	128	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	0.0495	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	202	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	pr2020186032	Id of event.
Event Code	2020186032	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020186032,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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