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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Isabela in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on April 19, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1295S, -67.1382WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico on Sunday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/04/20 / 2020-04-19 04:59:15 / April 19, 2020 @ 4:59 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -67.1382° West, 19.1295° North, depth 35 km. Event id: us70008zr5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008zr5. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:59:15 / 12:59 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hatillo, Camuy, Aguadilla (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (49 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Camuy (c. 4 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days nine hundred and ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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. 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: 70 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.1382° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1295° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km N 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 2020-04-19 04:59:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-19 05:15:46 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 158 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.658 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 199 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70008zr5 Id of event.
Event Code 70008zr5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008zr5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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