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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Culebra in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on April 21, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.5086S, -65.2881WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico. Global time and date of event 21/04/19 / 2019-04-21 17:47:16 / April 21, 2019 @ 5:47 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 13:47:16 / 1:47 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 52 km (32 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -65.2881° West, 18.5086° North, depth 52 km. Id of earthquake: pr2019111008. Event ids that are associated: pr2019111008.

Epicenter of the event was 72 km (45 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Humacao (c. 20 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Juncos, Tortola, Carolina (min 5000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 22 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.2881° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.5086° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km N of Culebra, 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 2019-04-21 17:47:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-21 21:09:32 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 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 0.8202 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 332 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 pr2019111008 Id of event.
Event Code 2019111008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019111008, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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