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Minor earthquake, 2.92 mag strikes near Isabela in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on September 24, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9843S, -67.1748WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico. Id of earthquake: pr2019267007. Event ids that are associated: pr2019267007. Exact location, longitude -67.1748° West, latitude 18.9843° North, depth = 10 km. The 2.92-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:08:29 / 1:08 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/09/19 / 2019-09-24 05:08:29 / September 24, 2019 @ 5:08 am.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Añasco, Arecibo, San Sebastián (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 55 km NNW of Isabela, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.92 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.1748° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9843° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55km NNW 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 05:08:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-24 08:55:30 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 131 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 0.5207 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 211 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 pr2019267007 Id of event.
Event Code 2019267007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019267007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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