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Minor earthquake: M2.84 quake has struck near Vieques in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on November 20, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0003S, -65.794WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Vieques in Puerto Rico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11 km (7 miles). The temblor was picked up at 14:14:46 / 2:14 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/11/19 / 2019-11-20 18:14:46 / November 20, 2019 @ 6:14 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -65.794 West, latitude 19.0003 North, depth = 11 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019324018. Id of event: pr2019324018.

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bayamón, Ingenio, Fajardo (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 63 km N of Vieques, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.794° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0003° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km N of Vieques, 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 2019-11-20 18:14:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-20 20:58:11 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 124 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7495 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 307 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 pr2019324018 Id of event.
Event Code 2019324018 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019324018, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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