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Minor earthquake, 3.03 mag has occurred near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on December 19, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1683S, -67.2536WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.03 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, depth 39 km, -67.2536° West, 19.1683° North. Id of earthquake: pr2018353000. Event ids that are associated: pr2018353000. The temblor was detected at 22:06:35 / 10:06 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 19/12/18 / 2018-12-19 02:06:35 / December 19, 2018 @ 2:06 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Isabela (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 78 km (48 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days fourty-one and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-one 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.

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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: 76 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.03 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2536° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1683° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76km 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 2018-12-19 02:06:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-19 03:04:52 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 141 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7151 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 227 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 pr2018353000 Id of event.
Event Code 2018353000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018353000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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