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Minor earthquake, 2.98 mag strikes near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.0361S, -67.8728WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) strikes 87 kilometers (54 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Id of earthquake: pr2020029006. Event ids that are associated: us60007ins, pr2020029006. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/01/20 / 2020-01-29 01:16:11 / January 29, 2020 @ 1:16 am. Exact location of event, longitude -67.8728 West, latitude 19.0361 North, depth = 25 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 25 km (16 miles). The temblor was detected at 20:16:11 / 8:16 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (47 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days fifty-one and in the last 365 days one thousand and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 87 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.98 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.8728° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0361° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 87km NW 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 2020-01-29 01:16:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-29 15:38:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 137 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 ,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7613 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 322 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 pr2020029006 Id of event.
Event Code 2020029006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007ins,pr2020029006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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