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Minor earthquake, 2.91 mag has occurred near Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.1196S, -66.4765WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13 km (8 miles). Unique identifier: pr2019268093. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019268093. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/09/19 / 2019-09-25 23:40:42 / September 25, 2019 @ 11:40 pm. The temblor was detected at 19:40:42 / 7:40 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -66.4765° West, latitude 19.1196° North, depth = 13 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Dorado (c. 13 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Manatí, San Antonio, Dorado (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-six, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 72 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.91 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.4765° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1196° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 72km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, 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 23:40:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-27 05:49:43 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6447 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 306 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 pr2019268093 Id of event.
Event Code 2019268093 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019268093, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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