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Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag has occurred near Hatillo in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.9638S, -66.8553WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) was reported 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Hatillo in Puerto Rico on Monday. Unique identifier: pr2019329010. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019329010. Global time and date of event 25/11/19 / 2019-11-25 16:33:01 / November 25, 2019 @ 4:33 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.86-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:33:01 / 12:33 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 66 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -66.8553 West, latitude 18.9638 North, depth = 66 km.

The epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vega Baja, Lares, Aguada. Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days fourty-eight, in the past 30 days one hundred and five and in the last 365 days six hundred and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 52 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8553° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9638° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52km N of Hatillo, 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 2019-11-25 16:33:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-25 19:11:45 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 126 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 0.5584 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 258 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 pr2019329010 Id of event.
Event Code 2019329010 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019329010, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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