Minor earthquake, 2.89 mag has occurred near Rincon in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) was reported 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Rincon in Puerto Rico on Sunday. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -67.7681° West, 18.6606° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/11/19 / 2019-11-24 18:48:57 / November 24, 2019 @ 6:48 pm. Unique identifier: pr2019328006. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019328006. The temblor was detected at 13:48:57 / 1:48 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 68 km (42 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Rincón (c. 1 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Moca, Aguadilla, Aguada (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days thirty-seven, in the past 30 days ninety-three and in the last 365 days nine hundred and four 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 65 km WNW of Rincon, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.89 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.7681° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.6606° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	65km WNW of Rincon, 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	2019-11-24 18:48:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-11-24 19:23:11	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	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	128	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	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3997	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.85 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	176	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	pr2019328006	Id of event.
Event Code	2019328006	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019328006,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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