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Minor earthquake, 2.97 mag was detected near Culebra in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.961S, -65.2528WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019050014. Id of event: pr2019050014. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 57 km (35 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.2528 West, latitude 18.961 North, depth = 57 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/02/19 / 2019-02-19 07:03:56 / February 19, 2019 @ 7:03 am. The temblor was picked up at 03:03:56 / 3:03 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Charlotte Amalie, Culebra (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days fourty-five and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 73 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.97 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.2528° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.961° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73km N of Culebra, 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 2019-02-19 07:03:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-19 12:25:59 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 136 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.0128 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 331 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 pr2019050014 Id of event.
Event Code 2019050014 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019050014, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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