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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on May 17, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0052S, -67.5411WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. The temblor was picked up at 06:39:22 / 6:39 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/05/20 / 2020-05-16 11:39:22 / May 16, 2020 @ 11:39 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us70009i1e. Event ids that are associated: us70009i1e. Exact location of earthquake, -67.5411° West, 19.0052° North, depth 10 km.

Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguadilla (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days thirty-four, in the past 30 days one hundred and seven and in the last 365 days one thousand and ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 73 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.5411° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0052° 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 2020-05-16 11:39:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-17 07:40:31 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 121 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 0.672 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 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 us70009i1e Id of event.
Event Code 70009i1e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009i1e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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