Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag strikes near Isabela in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019267050. Unique identifier: pr2019267050. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.0731 West, latitude 19.1135 North, depth = 78 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/09/19 / 2019-09-24 03:58:28 / September 24, 2019 @ 3:58 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 78 km (48 miles). The 2.86-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:58:28 / 11:58 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Camuy (c. 4 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aguadilla, Hatillo, Camuy. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-six, in the last 10 days fourty, in the past 30 days fifty-five and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 68 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.86 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.0731° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.1135° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	78 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	68km N of Isabela, 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	2019-09-24 03:58:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-09-24 17:53:53	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	46	The total number of felt reports
CDI	5.2	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	150	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	0.6471	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.52 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	315	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	pr2019267050	Id of event.
Event Code	2019267050	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019267050,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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