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Strong earthquake, 6.3 mag strikes near Isabela in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on September 24, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.2S, -67.2WA earthquake magnitude 6.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico. Id of earthquake: at00pybg39. Event ids that are associated: pt19267000, at00pybg39. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/09/19 / 2019-09-24 03:23:33 / September 24, 2019 @ 3:23 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.2 West, latitude 19.2 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 23:23:33 / 11:23 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Isabela in Puerto Rico (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Morovis, Dorado, Sabana Grande. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 111 km (69 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 120 km (74 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 109 km (67 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 126 km (78 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop), 114 km (71 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 128 km (80 miles) from Dorado (c. 13 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 79 km NNW of Isabela, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km 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 03:23:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-24 03:36:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 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 1 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 613 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pt,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 117 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93.599992512001 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Mi The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00pybg39 Id of event.
Event Code 00pybg39 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt19267000,at00pybg39, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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