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Minor earthquake, 3.06 mag strikes near Arecibo in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.0813S, -66.5703WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.06 (ml/mb) was reported 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Arecibo in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. The 3.06-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:36:14 / 7:36 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2019036043. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019036043. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/02/19 / 2019-02-05 23:36:14 / February 5, 2019 @ 11:36 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -66.5703 West, latitude 19.0813 North, depth = 64 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 64 km (40 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vega Alta, Toa Baja, Quebradillas (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Dorado (c. 13 100 pop).

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

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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. 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: 69 km NNE of Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.06 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.5703° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0813° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km NNE of Arecibo, 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 2019-02-05 23:36:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-06 07:40:51 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 144 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 0.6056 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 297 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 pr2019036043 Id of event.
Event Code 2019036043 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019036043, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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