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Minor earthquake, 3.05 mag has occurred near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.8691S, -67.2706WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.05 (ml/mb) was reported 45 kilometers (28 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.2706 West, latitude 18.8691 North, depth = 20 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 20 km (12 miles). Global time and date of event 28/09/19 / 2019-09-28 19:52:25 / September 28, 2019 @ 7:52 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 15:52:25 / 3:52 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019271036. Unique identifier: pr2019271036.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lares, Mayagüez, Las Marías. Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop).

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

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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: 45 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.05 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2706° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8691° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km 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 19:52:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-28 20:16:17 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 143 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4321 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 192 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 pr2019271036 Id of event.
Event Code 2019271036 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019271036, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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