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Minor earthquake, 3.04 mag strikes near Arecibo in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on April 26, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0073S, -66.6336WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.04 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Arecibo in Puerto Rico. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 49 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.04-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:20:43 / 8:20 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2019116005. Event ids that are associated: pr2019116005. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.6336 West, latitude 19.0073 North, depth = 49 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/04/19 / 2019-04-26 12:20:43 / April 26, 2019 @ 12:20 pm.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Levittown, Campanilla, Ciales. Earthquake epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop).

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 two hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 59 km N of Arecibo, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.04 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.6336° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0073° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59km 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 2019-04-26 12:20:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-26 17:23:11 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 142 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5403 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 301 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 pr2019116005 Id of event.
Event Code 2019116005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019116005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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