Minor earthquake 2.93 mag, 79 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) strikes 79 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico (49 miles) on Monday. Unique identifier: pr2019330001. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019330001. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 27 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.9631 West, latitude 19.1761 North, depth = 27 km. The temblor was reported at 22:52:30 / 10:52 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/11/19 / 2019-11-26 02:52:30 / November 26, 2019 @ 2:52 am.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days thirty-six, in the past 30 days fourty-eight and in the last 365 days three hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 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: 79 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.93 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.9631° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.1761° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	27 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	79km N 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	2019-11-26 02:52:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-11-26 03:36:12	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	132	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	11	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.8754	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.36 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	305	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	pr2019330001	Id of event.
Event Code	2019330001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019330001,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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