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Minor earthquake 2.98 mag, 64 km NNW of Isabela, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.0696S, -67.1711WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico. Global time and date of event 26/09/19 / 2019-09-26 04:01:50 / September 26, 2019 @ 4:01 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -67.1711° West, 19.0696° North, depth 10 km. Event id: pr2019269003. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019269003. The temblor was detected at 00:01:50 / 12:01 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguada, Moca, Hatillo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days eighty-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and three and in the last 365 days four hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 64 km NNW of Isabela, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.98 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.1711° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0696° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km NNW of Isabela, 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 2019-09-26 04:01:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-26 05:04:51 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 137 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6051 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 209 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 pr2019269003 Id of event.
Event Code 2019269003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019269003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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