Minor earthquake 2.87 mag, 95 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 95 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico (59 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/04/19 / 2019-04-21 19:58:38 / April 21, 2019 @ 7:58 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 21 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.3603 West, latitude 19.331 North, depth = 21 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019111010. Unique identifier: pr2019111010. The temblor was detected at 15:58:38 / 3:58 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-one 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: 95 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.87 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.3603° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.331° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	21 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	95km N of Brenas, 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 19:58:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-04-22 00:07:03	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	127	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	1.0601	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	317	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	pr2019111010	Id of event.
Event Code	2019111010	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019111010,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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