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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 78 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.0088S, -65.3113WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 78 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico (48 miles) on Thursday. The temblor was detected at 13:02:34 / 1:02 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 41 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: pr2019136014. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019136014. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.3113 West, latitude 19.0088 North, depth = 41 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/05/19 / 2019-05-16 17:02:34 / May 16, 2019 @ 5:02 pm.

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days four hundred and fifty-eight 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 78 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.3113° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0088° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 78km 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 2019-05-16 17:02:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-16 18:16:44 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 129 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 1.0198 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 325 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 pr2019136014 Id of event.
Event Code 2019136014 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019136014, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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