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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Isabela in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on April 19, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9202S, -67.0919WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:15:15 / 12:15 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/04/20 / 2020-04-19 04:15:15 / April 19, 2020 @ 4:15 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 60.15 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us70008zq6. Ids that are associated to the event: us70008zq6. Exact location of event, longitude -67.0919 West, latitude 18.9202 North, depth = 60.15 km.

Epicenter of the event was 64 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Lares (c. 7 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Las Marías, Lares, Añasco (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fourty-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixty-one and in the last 365 days one thousand, seven hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 46 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.0919° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9202° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km 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 04:15:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-19 04:40:38 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 129 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 0.45 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 204 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 us70008zq6 Id of event.
Event Code 70008zq6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008zq6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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