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Minor earthquake, 2.92 mag has occurred near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on September 28, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0323S, -67.27WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/09/19 / 2019-09-28 12:53:40 / September 28, 2019 @ 12:53 pm. The 2.92-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:53:40 / 8:53 am (local time epicenter). Event id: pr2019271042. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019271042. Exact location of event, depth 56 km, -67.27° West, 19.0323° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 56 km (35 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 68 km (42 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 73 km (45 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 eighteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and seventy-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and ninety and in the last 365 days five hundred and fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 62 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.92 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.27° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0323° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km 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 2019-09-28 12:53:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-28 22:34:33 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 131 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6808 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 307 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 pr2019271042 Id of event.
Event Code 2019271042 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019271042, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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