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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.3183S, -67.4973WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 55 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico (34 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019278006, us70005r0q. Id of event: pr2019278006. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:42:22 / 2:42 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 05/10/19 / 2019-10-05 06:42:22 / October 5, 2019 @ 6:42 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 55 km (34 miles). Exact location of event, depth 55 km, -67.4973° West, 19.3183° North.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and seventy-seven, in the past 30 days two hundred and seventy-five and in the last 365 days six hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 55 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.4973° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3183° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55km 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 06:42:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-05 07:05:45 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 188 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.934 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 308 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 pr2019278006 Id of event.
Event Code 2019278006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019278006,us70005r0q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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