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Minor earthquake, 3.12 mag was detected near Isabela in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.072S, -67.219WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.12 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/11/19 / 2019-11-30 05:17:55 / November 30, 2019 @ 5:17 am UTC/GMT. The 3.12-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:17:55 / 1:17 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6 km (4 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -67.219° West, 19.072° North, depth 6 km. Unique identifier: pr2019334006. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019334006, us70006eqr.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hatillo, Aguada, Camuy. The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days fourty-two, in the past 30 days ninety and in the last 365 days eight hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 66 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.12 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.219° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.072° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km N of Isabela, 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 2019-11-30 05:17:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-30 08:03:26 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 150 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,us, 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 0.8581 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 310 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 pr2019334006 Id of event.
Event Code 2019334006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019334006,us70006eqr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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