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Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag strikes near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.193S, -67.4436WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 85 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico (53 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/12/19 / 2019-12-23 10:27:19 / December 23, 2019 @ 10:27 am. The 2.85-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:27:19 / 6:27 am (local time epicenter). Event id: pr2019357024. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019357024. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.4436 West, latitude 19.193 North, depth = 77 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 77 km (48 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days one hundred and six, in the past 30 days one hundred and seventy-one and in the last 365 days nine hundred and fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 85 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.4436° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.193° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 85km 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 2019-12-23 10:27:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-23 13:45:39 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 125 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 3 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.2326 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 326 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 pr2019357024 Id of event.
Event Code 2019357024 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019357024, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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