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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Vieques in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on November 24, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.8288S, -65.8071WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Vieques in Puerto Rico. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/11/19 / 2019-11-24 06:19:13 / November 24, 2019 @ 6:19 am. Exact location of event, depth 12 km, -65.8071° West, 18.8288° North. The temblor was reported at 02:19:13 / 2:19 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2019328001. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019328001.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 51 km (32 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Corozal, Humacao, Naranjito. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-eight, in the past 30 days fourty-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 44 km N of Vieques, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.8071° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8288° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km 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 2019-11-24 06:19:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-24 07:07:25 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5888 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 301 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 pr2019328001 Id of event.
Event Code 2019328001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019328001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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