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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Loiza in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on November 21, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0221S, -65.7968WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Loiza in Puerto Rico. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 25 km (16 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019324026. Unique identifier: pr2019324026. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/11/19 / 2019-11-20 22:50:20 / November 20, 2019 @ 10:50 pm. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:50:20 / 6:50 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -65.7968° West, 19.0221° North, depth 25 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Levittown, Carolina, Cataño (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Cataño (c. 28 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Río Grande (c. 13 500 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 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 ten, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 65 km N of Loiza, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.7968° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0221° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km N of Loiza, 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 22:50:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-21 02:07:38 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 129 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 0.7686 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 308 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 pr2019324026 Id of event.
Event Code 2019324026 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019324026, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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