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Minor earthquake 2.89 mag, 70 km N of Arecibo, Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on April 4, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0996S, -66.6115WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Arecibo in Puerto Rico. The temblor was detected at 09:17:09 / 9:17 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -66.6115° West, latitude 19.0996° North, depth = 50 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 50 km (31 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/04/19 / 2019-04-04 13:17:09 / April 4, 2019 @ 1:17 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019094013. Id of event: pr2019094013.

The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vega Baja, Manatí, Camuy (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-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: 70 km N of Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.89 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.6115° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0996° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 50 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km N 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 2019-04-04 13:17:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-04 17:24:53 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 128 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 0.6279 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 319 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 pr2019094013 Id of event.
Event Code 2019094013 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019094013, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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