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Strong earthquake 6 mag, 62 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on September 24, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.077S, -67.2701WA earthquake with magnitude 6 (ml/mb) was reported 62 kilometers (39 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Monday. Event id: pr2019267000. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00pybg39, pt19267000, us60005mja, pr2019267000. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/09/19 / 2019-09-24 03:23:40 / September 24, 2019 @ 3:23 am. The temblor was detected at 23:23:40 / 11:23 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude -67.2701° West, latitude 19.077° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near San Antonio in Puerto Rico (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ceiba, Jayuya, Ciales (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 98 km (61 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 117 km (72 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 104 km (65 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 117 km (73 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop), 109 km (68 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days thirty-three and in the last 365 days four hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 62 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2701° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.077° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km 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 03:23:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-24 04:35:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 610 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.193 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 1 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 883 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 ,at,pt,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6299 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 193 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mw The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr2019267000 Id of event.
Event Code 2019267000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00pybg39,pt19267000,us60005mja,pr2019267000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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