Minor earthquake: M2.83 quake has struck near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) was reported 73 kilometers (45 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Thursday. The temblor was detected at 07:42:16 / 7:42 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.2565 West, latitude 19.1383 North, depth = 37 km. Global time and date of event 26/09/19 / 2019-09-26 11:42:16 / September 26, 2019 @ 11:42 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 37 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: pr2019269040. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019269040.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Isabela. Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (47 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-two, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty-nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifty-seven and in the last 365 days five hundred and thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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. 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: 73 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.83 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.2565° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.1383° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	37 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	73km 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	2019-09-26 11:42:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-09-27 10:58:25	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	123	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	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6864	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.68 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	290	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	pr2019269040	Id of event.
Event Code	2019269040	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019269040,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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