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Minor earthquake, 2.89 mag strikes near Arecibo in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on July 14, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1395S, -66.6356WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Arecibo in Puerto Rico. The 2.89-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:47:32 / 8:47 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -66.6356° West, 19.1395° North, depth 11 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11 km (7 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/07/19 / 2019-07-14 00:47:32 / July 14, 2019 @ 12:47 am. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019195001. Unique identifier: pr2019195001.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Camuy, Hatillo, Arecibo. Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (46 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Camuy (c. 4 200 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, 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 has struck near.

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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: 74 km N of Arecibo, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.89 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.6356° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1395° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km 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 2019-07-14 00:47:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-14 06:29:18 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 128 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6708 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 275 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 pr2019195001 Id of event.
Event Code 2019195001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019195001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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