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Minor earthquake, 2.88 mag strikes near Isabela in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on December 17, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.4425S, -66.9238WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) was reported 104 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico (65 miles) on Monday. The 2.88-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:20:38 / 7:20 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -66.9238 West, latitude 19.4425 North, depth = 55 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 55 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/12/19 / 2019-12-16 23:20:38 / December 16, 2019 @ 11:20 pm. Event id: pr2019350032. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019350032.

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-two, in the last 10 days fifty-four, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty and in the last 365 days seven hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 104 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.9238° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4425° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 104km 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 2019-12-16 23:20:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-17 09:43:13 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 128 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 1.277 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 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 pr2019350032 Id of event.
Event Code 2019350032 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019350032, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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