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Minor earthquake, 3.09 mag strikes near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.0365S, -67.1618WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.09 (ml/mb) was reported 60 kilometers (37 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Monday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019287023. Id of event: pr2019287023. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/10/19 / 2019-10-14 22:56:49 / October 14, 2019 @ 10:56 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -67.1618 West, latitude 19.0365 North, depth = 110 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 110 km (68 miles). The temblor was reported at 18:56:49 / 6:56 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Sebastián, Arecibo, Rincón. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days eighty-two, in the past 30 days three hundred and fourty-eight and in the last 365 days six hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 60 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.09 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.1618° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0365° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 110 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km 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 2019-10-14 22:56:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-15 00:30:54 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 147 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 0.8014 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 221 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 pr2019287023 Id of event.
Event Code 2019287023 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019287023, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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