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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.1403S, -67.612WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 89 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico (55 miles) on Thursday. The temblor was reported at 15:38:48 / 3:38 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 16/07/15 / 2015-07-16 20:38:48 / July 16, 2015 @ 8:38 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 30 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: pr15197032. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15197032. Exact location of earthquake, -67.612° West, 19.1403° North, depth 30 km.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 89 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.612° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1403° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 89km NW of San Antonio, 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 2015-07-16 20:38:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-17 02:07:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.82016185 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 266.4 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 pr15197032 Id of event.
Event Code 15197032 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15197032, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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