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Minor earthquake 3.14 mag, 80 km NNE of San Juan, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.1555S, -65.8753WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.14 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 80 kilometers (50 miles) from San Juan in Puerto Rico. The temblor was reported at 10:29:59 / 10:29 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 42 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 22/11/19 / 2019-11-22 14:29:59 / November 22, 2019 @ 2:29 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 42 km, -65.8753° West, 19.1555° North. Id of earthquake: pr2019326017. Event ids that are associated: pr2019326017.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 80 km (50 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Juan.

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

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 80 km NNE of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.14 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.8753° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1555° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80km NNE of San Juan, 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 2019-11-22 14:29:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-22 16:00:03 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 152 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.8717 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 273 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 pr2019326017 Id of event.
Event Code 2019326017 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019326017, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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