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Minor earthquake, 2.93 mag has occurred near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.1315S, -67.2925WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) was reported 73 kilometers (45 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Sunday. Exact location of event, depth 25 km, -67.2925° West, 19.1315° North. The temblor was reported at 06:18:47 / 6:18 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 25 km (16 miles). Id of earthquake: pr2019272030. Event ids that are associated: pr2019272030. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/09/19 / 2019-09-29 10:18:47 / September 29, 2019 @ 10:18 am.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Isabela (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 73 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.93 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2925° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1315° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25 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 2019-09-29 10:18:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-29 17:07:39 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 132 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6883 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 291 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 pr2019272030 Id of event.
Event Code 2019272030 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019272030, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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