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Minor earthquake, 2.91 mag strikes near Hatillo in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on March 30, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0666S, -66.8188WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Hatillo in Puerto Rico. The 2.91-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:50:41 / 10:50 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/03/19 / 2019-03-30 02:50:41 / March 30, 2019 @ 2:50 am. Exact location of event, depth 40 km, -66.8188° West, 19.0666° North. Unique identifier: pr2019089001. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019089001. The epicenter was at a depth of 40 km (25 miles).

The epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Barceloneta, Quebradillas, Arecibo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 64 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.91 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8188° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0666° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km N of Hatillo, 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 2019-03-30 02:50:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-30 03:10:39 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 130 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6567 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 271 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 pr2019089001 Id of event.
Event Code 2019089001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019089001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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