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Minor earthquake, 3.09 mag has occurred near San Jose in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.393S, -66.2633WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.09 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 0 kilometers (0 miles) from San Jose in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/12/19 / 2019-12-07 21:38:55 / December 7, 2019 @ 9:38 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.2633 West, latitude 18.393 North, depth = 112 km. Unique identifier: pr2019341015. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019341015. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 112 km (70 miles). The temblor was detected at 17:38:55 / 5:38 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Maricao, Las Marías, San Sebastián. The epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 0 km SW of San Jose, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.09 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.2633° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.393° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 112 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 0km SW of San Jose, 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 2019-12-07 21:38:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-07 23:54:53 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1984 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 187 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 pr2019341015 Id of event.
Event Code 2019341015 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019341015, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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