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Minor earthquake: M3.08 quake has struck near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on October 5, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9908S, -67.1796WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.08 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. The 3.08-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:29:55 / 2:29 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 20 km (12 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019278030. Unique identifier: pr2019278030. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/10/19 / 2019-10-05 18:29:55 / October 5, 2019 @ 6:29 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 20 km, -67.1796° West, 18.9908° North.

Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Añasco, Arecibo, San Sebastián (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and seventy-two, in the past 30 days two hundred and eighty-six and in the last 365 days five hundred and ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 55 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.08 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.1796° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9908° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55km 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 2019-10-05 18:29:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-05 18:48:03 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 146 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5278 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 202 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 pr2019278030 Id of event.
Event Code 2019278030 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019278030, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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