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Minor earthquake: M2.94 quake has struck near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on December 19, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0745S, -67.2646WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) was reported 66 kilometers (41 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/12/19 / 2019-12-18 23:10:42 / December 18, 2019 @ 11:10 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 16 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: pr2019352027. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019352027. The temblor was reported at 19:10:42 / 7:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 16 km, -67.2646° West, 19.0745° North.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aguada, Moca, Quebradillas (min 5000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 66 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.94 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2646° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0745° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km 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 2019-12-18 23:10:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-19 04:03:27 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 133 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6261 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 319 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 pr2019352027 Id of event.
Event Code 2019352027 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019352027, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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