Minor earthquake, 2.89 mag has occurred near Suarez in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Suarez in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, -65.7848° West, 19.0588° North, depth 25 km. Global time and date of event 20/11/19 / 2019-11-20 22:31:32 / November 20, 2019 @ 10:31 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019324023. Id of event: pr2019324023. The 2.89-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:31:32 / 6:31 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cataño, Canovanas, Luquillo. Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Cataño (c. 28 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Río Grande (c. 13 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Canovanas (c. 8 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Luquillo (c. 8 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 69 km N of Suarez, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.89 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.7848° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.0588° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	25 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	69km N of Suarez, 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	2019-11-20 22:31:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-11-21 02:06:15	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	128	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	0.8071	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.14 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	311	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	pr2019324023	Id of event.
Event Code	2019324023	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019324023,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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