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Minor earthquake, 2.88 mag was detected near Rincon in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.7646S, -67.7191WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) was reported 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Rincon in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude -67.7191 West, latitude 18.7646 North, depth = 93 km. The 2.88-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:10:34 / 11:10 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019009010. Id of event: pr2019009010. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 93 km (58 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/01/19 / 2019-01-09 16:10:34 / January 9, 2019 @ 4:10 pm.

Event epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Rincón (c. 1 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Moca, Punta Cana, Aguada (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days fourty-six and in the last 365 days five hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 68 km NW of Rincon, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.7191° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.7646° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68km NW of Rincon, 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 2019-01-09 16:10:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-09 22:34:21 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 128 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network pr The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.8648 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 210 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr2019009010 Id of event.
Event Code 2019009010 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019009010, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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