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Minor earthquake: M2.99 quake has struck near Hatillo in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.1375S, -66.828WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) was reported 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Hatillo in Puerto Rico on Monday. The 2.99-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:34:10 / 1:34 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019273013. Id of event: pr2019273013. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 24 km, -66.828° West, 19.1375° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/09/19 / 2019-09-30 05:34:10 / September 30, 2019 @ 5:34 am.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arecibo, Quebradillas, Isabela. Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Camuy (c. 4 200 pop).

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 twenty-six, in the last 10 days two hundred and four, in the past 30 days two hundred and eleven and in the last 365 days four hundred and six 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: 72 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.99 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.828° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1375° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 72km N of Hatillo, 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 2019-09-30 05:34:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-30 10:54:04 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 138 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 0.7274 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 279 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 pr2019273013 Id of event.
Event Code 2019273013 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019273013, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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