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Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag was detected near Isabela in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on October 17, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.766S, -67.1085WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico. Event id: pr2019290010. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019290010. The temblor was detected at 03:00:37 / 3:00 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -67.1085 West, latitude 18.766 North, depth = 114 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/10/19 / 2019-10-17 07:00:37 / October 17, 2019 @ 7:00 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 114 km (71 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Germán, Cabo Rojo, Manatí (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days seventy-one, in the past 30 days three hundred and fifty-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 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 30 km NNW of Isabela, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.1085° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.766° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 114 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km NNW of Isabela, 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 2019-10-17 07:00:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-17 11:55:30 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 127 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 3 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5907 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 325 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 pr2019290010 Id of event.
Event Code 2019290010 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019290010, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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