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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 57 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.008S, -67.175WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 57 kilometers (35 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/09/19 / 2019-09-25 00:12:08 / September 25, 2019 @ 12:12 am. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:12:08 / 8:12 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pt19268050. Event ids that are associated: pt19268050. Exact location, longitude -67.175° West, latitude 19.008° North, depth = 18.4 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18.4 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vega Baja, San Germán, Puerto Real (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 104 km (65 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-nine, in the last 10 days fourty-five, in the past 30 days sixty-one and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 57 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.175° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.008° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.4 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 2019-09-25 00:12:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-25 00:15:34 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 385 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network pt The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pt, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pt19268050 Id of event.
Event Code 19268050 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt19268050, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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