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Minor earthquake, 3.08 mag was detected near Loiza in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.9585S, -65.8451WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.08 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Loiza in Puerto Rico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6 km (4 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/11/19 / 2019-11-21 01:25:47 / November 21, 2019 @ 1:25 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr2019325006. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019325006. Exact location, longitude -65.8451° West, latitude 18.9585° North, depth = 6 km. The 3.08-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:25:47 / 9:25 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ceiba, Pájaros, Toa Alta (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days fourty-three and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.08 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.8451° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9585° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km 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 2019-11-21 01:25:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-21 09:06:01 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 146 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6919 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 304 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 pr2019325006 Id of event.
Event Code 2019325006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019325006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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