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Minor earthquake 3.64 mag, 78 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.1721S, -67.3WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.64 (ml/mb) was reported 78 kilometers (48 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/09/19 / 2019-09-24 20:19:25 / September 24, 2019 @ 8:19 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 16:19:25 / 4:19 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019267060. Unique identifier: pr2019267060. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact location, longitude -67.3° West, latitude 19.1721° North, depth = 35 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguadilla, Isabela. Epicenter of the earthquake was 84 km (52 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-six, in the last 10 days fourty-two, in the past 30 days fifty-seven and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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. 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: 78 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.64 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.3° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1721° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 78km 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 2019-09-24 20:19:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-24 21:37:32 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 204 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7295 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 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 pr2019267060 Id of event.
Event Code 2019267060 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019267060, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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