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Minor earthquake: M2.94 quake has struck near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.2071S, -67.2493WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 80 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico (50 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -67.2493° West, 19.2071° North, depth 36 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 36 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 24/09/19 / 2019-09-24 21:49:03 / September 24, 2019 @ 9:49 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 17:49:03 / 5:49 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: pr2019267173. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019267173.

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

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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: 80 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.94 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2493° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2071° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80km 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 21:49:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-26 13:33:59 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 133 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7524 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 301 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 pr2019267173 Id of event.
Event Code 2019267173 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019267173, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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