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Minor earthquake 3.7 mag, 69 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.1235S, -67.1323WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) strikes 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/10/19 / 2019-10-30 02:18:24 / October 30, 2019 @ 2:18 am. The temblor was picked up at 22:18:24 / 10:18 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.1323 West, latitude 19.1235 North, depth = 23 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019303000. Unique identifier: pr2019303000.

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arecibo, Aguada, Moca.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 three, in the last 10 days thirty-four, in the past 30 days two hundred and two and in the last 365 days six hundred and ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 69 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.1323° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1235° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km N 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 2019-10-30 02:18:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-30 03:54:42 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 211 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 0.6563 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 213 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 pr2019303000 Id of event.
Event Code 2019303000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019303000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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