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Minor earthquake 3.03 mag, 49 km NNE of Arecibo, Puerto Rico

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Earthquake location 18.9006S, -66.5695WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.03 (ml/mb) strikes 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Arecibo in Puerto Rico on Sunday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019083003. Id of event: pr2019083003. The temblor was picked up at 01:09:33 / 1:09 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -66.5695° West, 18.9006° North, depth 93 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 93 km (58 miles). Global time and date of event 24/03/19 / 2019-03-24 05:09:33 / March 24, 2019 @ 5:09 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guaynabo, Orocovis, San Sebastián (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. 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 five, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 49 km NNE of Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.03 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.5695° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9006° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km NNE of Arecibo, 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 2019-03-24 05:09:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-24 08:16:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 141 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.8258 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 299 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 pr2019083003 Id of event.
Event Code 2019083003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019083003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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