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Minor earthquake, 2.94 mag has occurred near Arecibo in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.0925S, -66.5888WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Arecibo in Puerto Rico. The temblor was detected at 18:17:30 / 6:17 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: pr2019259008. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019259008. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 31 km (19 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/09/19 / 2019-09-16 22:17:30 / September 16, 2019 @ 10:17 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -66.5888° West, latitude 19.0925° North, depth = 31 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dorado, Quebradillas, San Antonio. Event epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Dorado (c. 13 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 69 km N of Arecibo, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.94 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.5888° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0925° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km N of Arecibo, 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 2019-09-16 22:17:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-16 22:34:04 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 133 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6182 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 289 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 pr2019259008 Id of event.
Event Code 2019259008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019259008, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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