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Minor earthquake: M2.84 quake has struck near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.281S, -67.3671WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) strikes 91 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico (57 miles) on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24 km (15 miles). Id of earthquake: pr2019279035. Event ids that are associated: pr2019279035. The 2.84-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:40:49 / 6:40 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/10/19 / 2019-10-06 22:40:49 / October 6, 2019 @ 10:40 pm. Exact location of event, depth 24 km, -67.3671° West, 19.281° North.

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourty-nine, in the past 30 days two hundred and ninety-two and in the last 365 days six hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 91 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.3671° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.281° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91km 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 2019-10-06 22:40:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-07 00:59:57 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 124 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.8528 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 307 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 pr2019279035 Id of event.
Event Code 2019279035 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019279035, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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