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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 19.0353S, -67.26WA earthquake magnitude 6 (ml/mb) strikes 62 kilometers (39 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us60005mja. Event ids that are associated: at00pybg39, pt19267000, us60005mja. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/09/19 / 2019-09-24 03:23:35 / September 24, 2019 @ 3:23 am. Exact location of event, longitude -67.26 West, latitude 19.0353 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 23:23:35 / 11:23 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near San Antonio in Puerto Rico (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Antonio, Vega Alta, Morovis. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 113 km (70 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 119 km (74 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 112 km (70 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days three hundred and ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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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: 62 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.26° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0353° 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 03:23:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-24 03:43:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 209 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.7 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.194 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 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 652 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at,pt,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.821 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 20 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us60005mja Id of event.
Event Code 60005mja An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00pybg39,pt19267000,us60005mja, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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