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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on June 23, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.171S, -66.5181WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 78 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico (48 miles). Exact location of event, depth 21 km, -66.5181° West, 19.171° North. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019174011. Unique identifier: pr2019174011. The temblor was reported at 05:26:13 / 5:26 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 23/06/19 / 2019-06-23 09:26:13 / June 23, 2019 @ 9:26 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-four 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 78 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.5181° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.171° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 78km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, 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 2019-06-23 09:26:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-23 10:10:13 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.694 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 278 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 pr2019174011 Id of event.
Event Code 2019174011 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019174011, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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