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


Earthquake location 19.3321S, -67.3876WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) strikes 97 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico (60 miles) on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude -67.3876 West, latitude 19.3321 North, depth = 25 km. Unique identifier: pr2019282005. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019282005. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 25 km (16 miles). The temblor was picked up at 00:31:02 / 12:31 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 09/10/19 / 2019-10-09 04:31:02 / October 9, 2019 @ 4:31 am UTC/GMT.

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty-seven, in the past 30 days three hundred and twelve and in the last 365 days six hundred and seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 97 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 -67.3876° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3321° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 97km 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 2019-10-09 04:31:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-09 08:46:45 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 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.9077 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 303 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 pr2019282005 Id of event.
Event Code 2019282005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019282005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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