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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Arecibo in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.2296S, -66.5465WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 85 km NNE of Arecibo, Puerto Rico (53 miles). Id of earthquake: pr2019048012. Event ids that are associated: pr2019048012. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/02/19 / 2019-02-17 11:50:35 / February 17, 2019 @ 11:50 am UTC/GMT. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:50:35 / 7:50 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 40 km (25 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -66.5465 West, latitude 19.2296 North, depth = 40 km.

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 85 km NNE of Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.5465° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2296° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 85km 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 2019-02-17 11:50:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-17 15:55:58 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 138 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 0.7527 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 315 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 pr2019048012 Id of event.
Event Code 2019048012 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019048012, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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