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Minor earthquake: M2.99 quake has struck near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.9346S, -67.6183WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) was reported 73 kilometers (45 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Saturday. The 2.99-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:46:23 / 4:46 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 01/02/20 / 2020-02-01 21:46:23 / February 1, 2020 @ 9:46 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr2020032043. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020032043. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude -67.6183° West, latitude 18.9346° North, depth = 10 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Rincón (c. 1 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rincón, Aguada, Aguadilla.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days thirty-eight, in the past 30 days fourty-two and in the last 365 days one thousand and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 73 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.99 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.6183° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9346° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73km NW 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 2020-02-01 21:46:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-01 22:18:50 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 138 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5675 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 193 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 pr2020032043 Id of event.
Event Code 2020032043 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020032043, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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