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Minor earthquake, 3.02 mag has occurred near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.0038S, -67.2535WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.02 (ml/mb) was reported 58 kilometers (36 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Thursday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/09/19 / 2019-09-26 21:41:21 / September 26, 2019 @ 9:41 pm. Exact location, longitude -67.2535° West, latitude 19.0038° North, depth = 17 km. The 3.02-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:41:21 / 5:41 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 17 km (11 miles). Event id: pr2019269046. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019269046.

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 65 km (40 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rincón, Hatillo, Camuy.

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 58 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.02 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2535° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0038° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km 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 21:41:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-27 12:08:04 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 140 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5549 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 304 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 pr2019269046 Id of event.
Event Code 2019269046 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019269046, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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