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Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag strikes near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.0105S, -67.1618WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 08:37:10 / 8:37 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/09/19 / 2019-09-24 12:37:10 / September 24, 2019 @ 12:37 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019267143. Unique identifier: pr2019267143. Exact location of event, longitude -67.1618 West, latitude 19.0105 North, depth = 6 km.

The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Sebastián, Arecibo, Rincón (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-five, in the last 10 days eighty-one, in the past 30 days ninety-seven and in the last 365 days three hundred and ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 57 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.1618° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0105° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km N 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 12:37:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-25 21:40:48 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 126 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5454 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 285 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 pr2019267143 Id of event.
Event Code 2019267143 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019267143, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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