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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag strikes near Aguadilla in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on December 21, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.891S, -67.6493WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Aguadilla in Puerto Rico. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 22 km (14 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/12/19 / 2019-12-21 23:14:56 / December 21, 2019 @ 11:14 pm. The temblor was reported at 18:14:56 / 6:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.6493 West, latitude 18.891 North, depth = 22 km. Event id: pr2019355032. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019355032, us70006pm1.

Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Rincón (c. 1 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Moca, Isabela, Aguada (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days ninety, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixty-one and in the last 365 days nine hundred and sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 57 km NW of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.6493° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.891° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km NW of Aguadilla, 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 2019-12-21 23:14:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-21 23:39:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 199 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5344 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 185 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 pr2019355032 Id of event.
Event Code 2019355032 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019355032,us70006pm1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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