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Minor earthquake, 3.42 mag has occurred near Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.1378S, -66.465WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.42 (ml/mb) strikes 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019267065. Unique identifier: pr2019267065. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 23 km (14 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -66.465° West, 19.1378° North, depth 23 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/09/19 / 2019-09-24 22:03:43 / September 24, 2019 @ 10:03 pm. The temblor was picked up at 18:03:43 / 6:03 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Campanilla, Camuy, Levittown (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-seven, in the last 10 days fourty, in the past 30 days fourty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 74 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.42 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.465° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1378° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, 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 2019-09-24 22:03:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-24 22:54:35 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 180 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6638 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 293 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 pr2019267065 Id of event.
Event Code 2019267065 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019267065, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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