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Minor earthquake: M2.83 quake has struck near Dorado in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on November 30, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0998S, -66.2736WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) strikes 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Dorado in Puerto Rico on Friday. Global time and date of event 29/11/19 / 2019-11-29 20:30:40 / November 29, 2019 @ 8:30 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019333013. Unique identifier: pr2019333013. The 2.83-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:30:40 / 4:30 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 25 km, -66.2736° West, 19.0998° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25 km (16 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Cataño (c. 28 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Dorado (c. 13 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vega Alta, Candelaria Arenas, Campanilla (min 5000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 70 km N of Dorado, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.83 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.2736° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0998° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km N of Dorado, 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 2019-11-29 20:30:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-29 23:47:29 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 123 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6732 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 303 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 pr2019333013 Id of event.
Event Code 2019333013 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019333013, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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