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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.072S, -67.2798WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Unique identifier: pr2019268062. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019268062. The temblor was detected at 22:45:32 / 10:45 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 24 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 25/09/19 / 2019-09-25 02:45:32 / September 25, 2019 @ 2:45 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -67.2798° West, latitude 19.072° North, depth = 24 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 73 km (45 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Quebradillas, Aguadilla, Isabela.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and five, in the last 10 days one hundred and eleven, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-eight and in the last 365 days five hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 66 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 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2798° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.072° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km 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 2019-09-25 02:45:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-26 22:46:38 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 121 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6276 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 337 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 pr2019268062 Id of event.
Event Code 2019268062 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019268062, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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