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Minor earthquake 2.87 mag, 67 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.0785S, -67.2598WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) strikes 67 kilometers (42 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/09/19 / 2019-09-24 07:25:41 / September 24, 2019 @ 7:25 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.2598 West, latitude 19.0785 North, depth = 55 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 55 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: pr2019267109. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019267109. The 2.87-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:25:41 / 3:25 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 73 km (46 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Quebradillas, Aguadilla, Isabela (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty, in the last 10 days sixty-five, in the past 30 days eighty-two and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2598° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0785° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km 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 07:25:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-25 14:23:34 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 127 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6288 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 319 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 pr2019267109 Id of event.
Event Code 2019267109 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019267109, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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