Minor earthquake, 2.95 mag was detected near La Parguera in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from La Parguera in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -67.0323° West, 17.9596° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/07/20 / 2020-07-26 01:17:32 / July 26, 2020 @ 1:17 am. The temblor was reported at 01:17:32 / 1:17 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Unique identifier: pr2020208002. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020208002.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 45 km (28 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salinas, Morovis, Manatí.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days thirty-two, in the past 30 days two hundred and fourty-five and in the last 365 days two thousand, five hundred and twenty-two 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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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 2 km SE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.95 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.0323° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9596° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2 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	2020-07-26 01:17:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-07-26 05:31:52	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	134	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	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0155	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	220	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	pr2020208002	Id of event.
Event Code	2020208002	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020208002,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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