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Minor earthquake, 3.06 mag has occurred near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.1601S, -67.2095WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.06 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Global time and date of event 08/10/19 / 2019-10-08 12:29:18 / October 8, 2019 @ 12:29 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.06-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:29:18 / 8:29 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.2095 West, latitude 19.1601 North, depth = 25 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019281020. Id of event: pr2019281020. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25 km (16 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Isabela (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty-eight, in the past 30 days three hundred and three and in the last 365 days six hundred and thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 74 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.06 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2095° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1601° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km N 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 2019-10-08 12:29:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-08 18:57:19 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 144 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6995 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 296 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 pr2019281020 Id of event.
Event Code 2019281020 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019281020, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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