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Minor earthquake, 2.89 mag has occurred near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on September 26, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1426S, -67.245WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) strikes 73 kilometers (45 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 52 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.245 West, latitude 19.1426 North, depth = 52 km. Event id: pr2019268032. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019268032. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/09/19 / 2019-09-25 06:57:11 / September 25, 2019 @ 6:57 am. The temblor was reported at 02:57:11 / 2:57 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Isabela.

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

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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. 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: 73 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.89 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.245° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1426° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73km 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 2019-09-25 06:57:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-26 18:33:17 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 128 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7935 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 296 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 pr2019268032 Id of event.
Event Code 2019268032 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019268032, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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