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Minor earthquake 2.98 mag, 68 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.0941S, -67.259WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) strikes 68 kilometers (42 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. The temblor was picked up at 22:41:46 / 10:41 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 01/01/20 / 2020-01-01 02:41:46 / January 1, 2020 @ 2:41 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020001067. Unique identifier: pr2020001067. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 24 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 24 km, -67.259° West, 19.0941° North.

The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Quebradillas, Aguadilla, Isabela. Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days seventy-nine, in the past 30 days two hundred and five and in the last 365 days nine hundred and ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 68 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.98 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.259° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0941° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68km 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 2020-01-01 02:41:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-03 11:34:56 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 137 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6438 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 288 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 pr2020001067 Id of event.
Event Code 2020001067 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020001067, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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