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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Isabela in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.022S, -67.0901WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 13 km, -67.0901° West, 19.022° North. Unique identifier: pr2019268019. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019268019. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/09/19 / 2019-09-25 01:24:23 / September 25, 2019 @ 1:24 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 21:24:23 / 9:24 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Sebastián, Arecibo, Aguada (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ninety-two, in the last 10 days ninety-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and ten and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 58 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.0901° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.022° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km 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 2019-09-25 01:24:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-26 17:59:13 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 129 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5549 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 216 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 pr2019268019 Id of event.
Event Code 2019268019 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019268019, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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