Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Small World Earthquakes

Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.1323S, -67.2686WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23 km (14 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019334013. Id of event: pr2019334013. The temblor was detected at 16:00:11 / 4:00 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -67.2686° West, latitude 19.1323° North, depth = 23 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/11/19 / 2019-11-30 20:00:11 / November 30, 2019 @ 8:00 pm UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 79 km (49 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aguadilla, Isabela (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fourty-two, in the past 30 days ninety and in the last 365 days eight hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

Questions or comments?

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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 73 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2019 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2686° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1323° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73km 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 2019-11-30 20:00:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-01 00:13:16 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 148 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6832 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 289 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 pr2019334013 Id of event.
Event Code 2019334013 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019334013, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply