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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on April 28, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1489S, -67.6681WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 94 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico (58 miles). The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:24:36 / 5:24 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 28/04/20 / 2020-04-28 22:24:36 / April 28, 2020 @ 10:24 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60009ebt. Id of event: us60009ebt. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.6681 West, latitude 19.1489 North, depth = 34.48 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 34.48 km (21 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days twenty-eight, in the past 30 days fourty-nine and in the last 365 days one thousand and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 94 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.6681° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1489° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 94km 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 2020-04-28 22:24:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-28 22:51:45 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 148 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.858 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 226 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us60009ebt Id of event.
Event Code 60009ebt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60009ebt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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