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Minor earthquake, 2.97 mag has occurred near Rincon in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on February 20, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.2093S, -67.6068WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Rincon in Puerto Rico. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019051010. Unique identifier: pr2019051010. Exact location of event, depth 137 km, -67.6068° West, 18.2093° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 137 km (85 miles). The temblor was reported at 12:19:56 / 12:19 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 20/02/19 / 2019-02-20 17:19:56 / February 20, 2019 @ 5:19 pm UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 49 km (31 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from San Germán (c. 12 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guánica, Lares, Quebradillas.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 40 km WSW of Rincon, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.97 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.6068° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2093° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 137 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km WSW of Rincon, 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 2019-02-20 17:19:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-20 20:00:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2167 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 177 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 pr2019051010 Id of event.
Event Code 2019051010 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019051010, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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