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

Posted by admin on May 24, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.8978S, -67.5387WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 64 kilometers (40 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Sunday. Unique identifier: us70009pfq. Ids that are associated to the event: us70009pfq. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:43:07 / 6:43 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 24/05/20 / 2020-05-24 11:43:07 / May 24, 2020 @ 11:43 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -67.5387 West, latitude 18.8978 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Moca, Isabela, Rincón (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Rincón (c. 1 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eighty-five and in the last 365 days one thousand, one hundred and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 64 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 -67.5387° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8978° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km 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 2020-05-24 11:43:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-24 11:49:07 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 0.589 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 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 ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70009pfq Id of event.
Event Code 70009pfq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009pfq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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