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Minor earthquake 2.83 mag, 94 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.353S, -67.11WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) strikes 94 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico (58 miles) on Sunday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/11/19 / 2019-11-17 07:11:17 / November 17, 2019 @ 7:11 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 45 km (28 miles). Unique identifier: pr2019321005. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019321005. The 2.83-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:11:17 / 3:11 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.11 West, latitude 19.353 North, depth = 45 km.

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 94 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.83 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.11° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.353° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 94km 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 2019-11-17 07:11:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-17 16:07:02 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 123 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.1775 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 326 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 pr2019321005 Id of event.
Event Code 2019321005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019321005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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