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Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag was detected near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on September 27, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1241S, -67.3301WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, longitude -67.3301 West, latitude 19.1241 North, depth = 54 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/09/19 / 2019-09-26 07:09:06 / September 26, 2019 @ 7:09 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 54 km (34 miles). The temblor was detected at 03:09:06 / 3:09 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019269050. Unique identifier: pr2019269050.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Isabela.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-one, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourty-five, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixty-two and in the last 365 days five hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 74 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.3301° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1241° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km 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 2019-09-26 07:09:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-27 13:57:19 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 125 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6921 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 299 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 pr2019269050 Id of event.
Event Code 2019269050 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019269050, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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