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Minor earthquake, 3.96 mag has occurred near Isabela in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.228S, -67.2151WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.96 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/12/19 / 2019-12-23 10:43:04 / December 23, 2019 @ 10:43 am. The temblor was picked up at 06:43:04 / 6:43 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.2151 West, latitude 19.228 North, depth = 40 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 40 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019357015. Unique identifier: pr2019357015.

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguadilla, Quebradillas, Isabela.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days one hundred and four, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixty-seven and in the last 365 days nine hundred and thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 82 km NNW of Isabela, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.96 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2151° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.228° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km 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 2019-12-23 10:43:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-23 11:55:36 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 241 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7676 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 216 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 pr2019357015 Id of event.
Event Code 2019357015 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019357015, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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