Minor earthquake, 2.96 mag was detected near Magas Arriba in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Magas Arriba in Puerto Rico. Id of earthquake: pr2020227000. Event ids that are associated: us6000beie, pr2020227000. Exact location, longitude -66.7476° West, latitude 18.0075° North, depth = 16 km. The temblor was reported at 02:07:29 / 2:07 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 16 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/08/20 / 2020-08-14 02:07:29 / August 14, 2020 @ 2:07 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Caguas, Guaynabo, Patillas (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 2 km ESE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.96 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.7476° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.0075° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2 km ESE of Magas Arriba, 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	2020-08-14 02:07:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-14 02:51:09	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	135	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	,us,pr,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	22	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1355	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.34 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	145	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	pr2020227000	Id of event.
Event Code	2020227000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000beie,pr2020227000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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