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Minor earthquake: M3.02 quake has struck near Isabela in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.2583S, -67.0898WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.02 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 84 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico (52 miles). The temblor was detected at 10:52:02 / 10:52 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2019364101. Event ids that are associated: pr2019364101. Exact location of earthquake, -67.0898° West, 19.2583° North, depth 57 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 57 km (35 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/12/19 / 2019-12-30 14:52:02 / December 30, 2019 @ 2:52 pm.

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days eighty-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and ninety-two and in the last 365 days eight hundred and eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 84 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.02 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.0898° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2583° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km N of Isabela, 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 2019-12-30 14:52:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-31 13:56:03 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 140 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7911 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 338 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 pr2019364101 Id of event.
Event Code 2019364101 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019364101, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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