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Minor earthquake: M2.92 quake has struck near Arecibo in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on October 23, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0315S, -66.584WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) strikes 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Arecibo in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. The 2.92-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:59:16 / 6:59 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.584 West, latitude 19.0315 North, depth = 43 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019295021. Id of event: pr2019295021. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/10/19 / 2019-10-22 22:59:16 / October 22, 2019 @ 10:59 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 43 km (27 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 64 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Candelaria Arenas, Ciales, Levittown (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 63 km NNE of Arecibo, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.92 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.584° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0315° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km NNE of Arecibo, 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 2019-10-22 22:59:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-22 23:16:41 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5571 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 273 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 pr2019295021 Id of event.
Event Code 2019295021 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019295021, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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