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Minor earthquake, 2.91 mag strikes near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on December 6, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0573S, -67.289WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) strikes 65 kilometers (40 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Friday. The temblor was detected at 17:19:19 / 5:19 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019340015. Unique identifier: pr2019340015. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/12/19 / 2019-12-06 21:19:19 / December 6, 2019 @ 9:19 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude -67.289° West, latitude 19.0573° North, depth = 10 km.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguada, Moca, Quebradillas (min 5000 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 65 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.91 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.289° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0573° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km NNW of San Antonio, 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 2019-12-06 21:19:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-06 23:21:21 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 130 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.616 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 287 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 pr2019340015 Id of event.
Event Code 2019340015 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019340015, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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