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Minor earthquake, 2.96 mag strikes near Rincon in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.2771S, -67.8616WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Rincon in Puerto Rico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 109 km (68 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/06/19 / 2019-06-27 05:31:26 / June 27, 2019 @ 5:31 am. Exact location of event, longitude -67.8616 West, latitude 18.2771 North, depth = 109 km. Id of earthquake: pr2019178003. Event ids that are associated: pr2019178003. The 2.96-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:31:26 / 12:31 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cabo Rojo, Mayagüez, Aguadilla. Epicenter of the event was 67 km (41 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Cabo Rojo (c. 10 800 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Puerto Real (c. 6 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 65 km W of Rincon, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.96 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.8616° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2771° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 109 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km W 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 2019-06-27 05:31:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-27 08:47:21 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 135 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3972 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 192 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 pr2019178003 Id of event.
Event Code 2019178003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019178003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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