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Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag was detected near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 29, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.819S, -67.4806WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, -67.4806° West, 18.819° North, depth 9 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/01/19 / 2019-01-29 13:54:49 / January 29, 2019 @ 1:54 pm. The temblor was detected at 09:54:49 / 9:54 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: pr2019029004. Event ids that are associated: pr2019029004.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Camuy, San Sebastián, Añasco (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 54 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.4806° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.819° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km 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 2019-01-29 13:54:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-29 16:23:07 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 126 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4346 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 305 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 pr2019029004 Id of event.
Event Code 2019029004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019029004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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