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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Isabela in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.1187S, -67.1432WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, -67.1432° West, 19.1187° North, depth 10 km. Unique identifier: us70007j0z. Ids that are associated to the event: us70007j0z. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/02/20 / 2020-02-05 13:31:53 / February 5, 2020 @ 1:31 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:31:53 / 9:31 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hatillo, Camuy, Aguadilla (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Camuy (c. 4 200 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 seventy-six, in the past 30 days seventy-eight and in the last 365 days nine hundred and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 69 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.1432° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1187° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km 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 2020-02-05 13:31:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-05 13:52:49 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 us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.648 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 196 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70007j0z Id of event.
Event Code 70007j0z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007j0z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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