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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Isabela in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.2036S, -67.2778WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 73 km NNW of Isabela, Puerto Rico (45 miles). Event id: pr2019267029. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019267029, us60005mna. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/09/19 / 2019-09-24 08:29:33 / September 24, 2019 @ 8:29 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 31 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -67.2778 West, latitude 19.2036 North, depth = 31 km. The temblor was reported at 04:29:33 / 4:29 am (local time epicenter).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-four, in the last 10 days thirty-nine, in the past 30 days fifty-two and in the last 365 days four hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 73 km NNW of Isabela, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2778° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2036° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73km NNW 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 2019-09-24 08:29:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-24 14:03:01 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 138 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7547 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 293 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 pr2019267029 Id of event.
Event Code 2019267029 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019267029,us60005mna, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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