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Minor earthquake 2.95 mag, 65 km S of Esperanza, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.5071S, -65.436WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) was reported 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Esperanza in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. Exact location of event, depth 11 km, -65.436° West, 17.5071° North. The temblor was picked up at 01:18:25 / 1:18 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/01/19 / 2019-01-23 05:18:25 / January 23, 2019 @ 5:18 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: pr2019023006. Event ids that are associated: pr2019023006.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Saint Croix, Yabucoa, Maunabo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Yabucoa (c. 7 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Maunabo (c. 2 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 65 km S of Esperanza, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.95 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.436° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.5071° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km S of Esperanza, 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 2019-01-23 05:18:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-23 09:49:35 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 134 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7574 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 318 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 pr2019023006 Id of event.
Event Code 2019023006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019023006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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