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Minor earthquake, 2.99 mag has occurred near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.0801S, -67.2185WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) strikes 66 kilometers (41 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Thursday. Event id: pr2019269033. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019269033. Exact location of event, longitude -67.2185 West, latitude 19.0801 North, depth = 53 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/09/19 / 2019-09-26 05:30:29 / September 26, 2019 @ 5:30 am. The temblor was picked up at 01:30:29 / 1:30 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 53 km (33 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguada, Hatillo, Camuy (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 73 km (45 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 66 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.99 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2185° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0801° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km N 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 05:30:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-27 10:23:12 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 138 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6219 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 292 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 pr2019269033 Id of event.
Event Code 2019269033 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019269033, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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