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Minor earthquake 3.07 mag, 60 km NW of Rincon, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.7436S, -67.6375WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.07 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Rincon in Puerto Rico. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/11/19 / 2019-11-16 23:32:38 / November 16, 2019 @ 11:32 pm. The temblor was detected at 18:32:38 / 6:32 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019320013. Id of event: pr2019320013. Exact location, longitude -67.6375° West, latitude 18.7436° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Añasco, Isabela, Moca. The epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days eighty-eight and in the last 365 days eight hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 60 km NW of Rincon, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.07 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.6375° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.7436° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km NW of Rincon, 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 2019-11-16 23:32:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-17 00:00:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 145 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3925 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 185 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 pr2019320013 Id of event.
Event Code 2019320013 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019320013, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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