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Minor earthquake: M2.97 quake has struck near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 14, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1518S, -67.2286WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 38 km (24 miles). The temblor was detected at 13:04:58 / 1:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.2286 West, latitude 19.1518 North, depth = 38 km. Id of earthquake: pr2020011115. Event ids that are associated: pr2020011115. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/01/20 / 2020-01-11 17:04:58 / January 11, 2020 @ 5:04 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Isabela. Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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: 74 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.97 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2286° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1518° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km N 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 2020-01-11 17:04:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-14 21:10:01 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 136 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.8072 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 289 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 pr2020011115 Id of event.
Event Code 2020011115 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020011115, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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