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Minor earthquake, 2.83 mag strikes near Hatillo in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.706S, -66.806WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) strikes 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Hatillo in Puerto Rico on Monday. The 2.83-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:21:08 / 6:21 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -66.806 West, latitude 18.706 North, depth = 93 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 93 km (58 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/02/19 / 2019-02-18 10:21:08 / February 18, 2019 @ 10:21 am. Unique identifier: pr2019049004. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019049004.

Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bayamón, Guayanilla, Yauco (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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 two hundred and twenty 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. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 24 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.83 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.806° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.706° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km N of Hatillo, 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 2019-02-18 10:21:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-18 10:53:41 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 123 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3589 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 235 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 pr2019049004 Id of event.
Event Code 2019049004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019049004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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