Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Small World Earthquakes

Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag has occurred near Isabela in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.9878S, -67.1665WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) was reported 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico on Monday. The temblor was reported at 22:02:40 / 10:02 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/12/19 / 2019-12-17 02:02:40 / December 17, 2019 @ 2:02 am. Exact location of earthquake, -67.1665° West, 18.9878° North, depth 62 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 62 km (39 miles). Unique identifier: pr2019351027. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019351027.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Sebastián, Arecibo, Rincón (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-four, in the last 10 days sixty-eight, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty-four and in the last 365 days eight hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

Did you feel it?

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: 55 km NNW of Isabela, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2019 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.1665° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9878° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55km 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 2019-12-17 02:02:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-17 18:31:59 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 126 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 3 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5232 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 357 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 pr2019351027 Id of event.
Event Code 2019351027 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019351027, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply