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Minor earthquake: M2.93 quake has struck near Isabela in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.009S, -67.1291WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico. The temblor was picked up at 21:27:16 / 9:27 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2019268022. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019268022. Exact location, longitude -67.1291° West, latitude 19.009° North, depth = 9 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/09/19 / 2019-09-25 01:27:16 / September 25, 2019 @ 1:27 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9 km (6 miles).

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Sebastián, Rincón, Arecibo (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been ninety-two, in the last 10 days ninety-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and twelve and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 57 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.93 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.1291° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.009° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km 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 2019-09-25 01:27:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-26 18:01:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 132 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5418 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 275 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 pr2019268022 Id of event.
Event Code 2019268022 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019268022, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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