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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.2356S, -67.3771WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 87 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico (54 miles) on Tuesday. The temblor was detected at 09:56:22 / 9:56 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 01/10/19 / 2019-10-01 13:56:22 / October 1, 2019 @ 1:56 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -67.3771 West, latitude 19.2356 North, depth = 19 km. Unique identifier: pr2019274036. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019274036.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days two hundred and twenty, in the past 30 days two hundred and thirty-two and in the last 365 days five hundred and ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 87 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.3771° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2356° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 87km 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 2019-10-01 13:56:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-01 18:25:08 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.8128 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 319 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 pr2019274036 Id of event.
Event Code 2019274036 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019274036, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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