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Minor earthquake, 3.07 mag strikes near Isabela in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on December 5, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9693S, -67.1455WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.07 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico. The 3.07-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:19:26 / 3:19 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/12/19 / 2019-12-05 19:19:26 / December 5, 2019 @ 7:19 pm. Exact location, longitude -67.1455° West, latitude 18.9693° North, depth = 42 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 42 km (26 miles). Event id: pr2019339007. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019339007.

Epicenter of the event was 71 km (44 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Añasco, San Sebastián, Arecibo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 53 km NNW of Isabela, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.07 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.1455° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9693° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km NNW 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 2019-12-05 19:19:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-05 20:38:17 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 145 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.503 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 211 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 pr2019339007 Id of event.
Event Code 2019339007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019339007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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