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Minor earthquake, 2.97 mag has occurred near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.2233S, -67.3158WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 84 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico (52 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 63 km (39 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -67.3158° West, 19.2233° North, depth 63 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019278025. Id of event: pr2019278025. The temblor was detected at 08:57:02 / 8:57 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/10/19 / 2019-10-05 12:57:02 / October 5, 2019 @ 12:57 pm.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and eighty, in the past 30 days two hundred and eighty-five and in the last 365 days six hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 84 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.97 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.3158° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2233° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km 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 2019-10-05 12:57:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-05 17:39:34 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 136 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 3 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.0725 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 338 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 pr2019278025 Id of event.
Event Code 2019278025 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019278025, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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