Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 82 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico (51 miles). The temblor was reported at 03:36:05 / 3:36 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000as4c. Unique identifier: us7000as4c. Exact location of event, longitude -67.6222 West, latitude 19.0405 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 21/07/20 / 2020-07-21 03:36:05 / July 21, 2020 @ 3:36 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days one thousand, one hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 82 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.6222° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.0405° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	82 km 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	2020-07-21 03:36:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-07-21 03:51:05	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	0.747	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	216	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	us7000as4c	Id of event.
Event Code	7000as4c	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000as4c,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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