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Minor earthquake, 2.83 mag strikes near Brenas in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on July 10, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0081S, -66.3881WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) strikes 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Brenas in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Unique identifier: pr2019190007. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019190007. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 85 km (53 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.83-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:40:05 / 5:40 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/07/19 / 2019-07-09 09:40:05 / July 9, 2019 @ 9:40 am. Exact location, longitude -66.3881° West, latitude 19.0081° North, depth = 85 km.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Morovis, Camuy, Ciales (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 67 km (42 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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 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: 60 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.83 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.3881° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0081° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km 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 2019-07-09 09:40:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-09 11:44:55 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 123 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 0.7559 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 290 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 pr2019190007 Id of event.
Event Code 2019190007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019190007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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