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Moderate earthquake, 5.06 mag strikes near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on September 24, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0225S, -67.2081WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.06 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt19267001, us60005mjd, pr2019267004. Id of event: pr2019267004. The 5.06-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:32:41 / 11:32 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -67.2081° West, latitude 19.0225° North, depth = 5 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 24/09/19 / 2019-09-24 03:32:41 / September 24, 2019 @ 3:32 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 92 km (57 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from San Germán (c. 12 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Germán, Puerto Real, Cabo Rojo (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 54 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.06 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2081° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0225° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km NNW of San Antonio, 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 03:32:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-24 06:01:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 512 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.8 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 691 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 ,pt,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 204 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6459 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr2019267004 Id of event.
Event Code 2019267004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt19267001,us60005mjd,pr2019267004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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