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Minor earthquake, 2.91 mag was detected near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.0778S, -67.2905WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, longitude -67.2905 West, latitude 19.0778 North, depth = 30 km. Id of earthquake: pr2019165004. Event ids that are associated: pr2019165004. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 30 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/06/19 / 2019-06-14 14:00:41 / June 14, 2019 @ 2:00 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.91-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:00:41 / 10:00 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Quebradillas, Aguadilla, Isabela (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-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.

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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. 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: 67 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.91 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2905° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0778° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km NNW of San Antonio, 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 2019-06-14 14:00:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-14 16:15:23 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 130 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 0.6361 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 294 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 pr2019165004 Id of event.
Event Code 2019165004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019165004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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