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Minor earthquake, 2.81 mag was detected near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on October 8, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0713S, -67.175WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) strikes 64 kilometers (40 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Monday. Unique identifier: pr2019280026. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019280026. Exact location of event, depth 28 km, -67.175° West, 19.0713° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 19:43:19 / 7:43 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/10/19 / 2019-10-07 23:43:19 / October 7, 2019 @ 11:43 pm.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguada, Moca, Hatillo. Event epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty-three, in the past 30 days two hundred and ninety-four and in the last 365 days six hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 64 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.81 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.175° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0713° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km 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 2019-10-07 23:43:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-08 05:00:10 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 121 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6072 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 318 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 pr2019280026 Id of event.
Event Code 2019280026 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019280026, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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