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Minor earthquake, 2.94 mag was detected near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on September 26, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1021S, -67.3285WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) strikes 71 kilometers (44 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 64 km (40 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.94-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:27:36 / 4:27 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 64 km, -67.3285° West, 19.1021° North. Event id: pr2019268045. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019268045. Global time and date of event 25/09/19 / 2019-09-25 08:27:36 / September 25, 2019 @ 8:27 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguadilla, Isabela (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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

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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: 71 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.94 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.3285° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1021° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71km 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 2019-09-25 08:27:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-26 20:09:56 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 133 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7333 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 298 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 pr2019268045 Id of event.
Event Code 2019268045 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019268045, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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