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Minor earthquake, 2.91 mag has occurred near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on September 27, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9881S, -67.246WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/09/19 / 2019-09-26 05:00:51 / September 26, 2019 @ 5:00 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 45 km (28 miles). The 2.91-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:00:51 / 1:00 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -67.246 West, latitude 18.9881 North, depth = 45 km. Unique identifier: pr2019269024. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019269024.

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 63 km (39 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rincón, Hatillo, Camuy (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-nine, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty-nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifty-six and in the last 365 days five hundred and thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor 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 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 NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.91 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.246° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9881° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km 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 2019-09-26 05:00:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-27 10:22:22 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 130 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5378 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 215 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 pr2019269024 Id of event.
Event Code 2019269024 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019269024, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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