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Minor earthquake 2.85 mag, 54 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.9821S, -67.1735WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Unique identifier: pr2019321008. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019321008. The temblor was detected at 04:05:22 / 4:05 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/11/19 / 2019-11-17 08:05:22 / November 17, 2019 @ 8:05 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7 km (4 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -67.1735° West, 18.9821° North, depth 7 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arecibo, San Sebastián, Rincón. Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every 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. 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 thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 54 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.1735° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9821° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km 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 2019-11-17 08:05:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-17 16:07:42 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 125 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5184 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 314 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 pr2019321008 Id of event.
Event Code 2019321008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019321008, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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