Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag strikes near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 85 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico (53 miles). The temblor was detected at 19:59:32 / 7:59 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 25/05/19 / 2019-05-25 00:59:32 / May 25, 2019 @ 12:59 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019145001. Unique identifier: pr2019145001. Exact location of event, longitude -67.6403 West, latitude 19.0625 North, depth = 46 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 46 km (29 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days four hundred and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 85 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.87 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.6403° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.0625° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	46 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	85km 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	2019-05-25 00:59:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-05-25 06:35:22	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	127	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	8	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6969	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.61 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	314	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	pr2019145001	Id of event.
Event Code	2019145001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019145001,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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