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Minor earthquake, 3.24 mag was detected near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.9296S, -67.1991WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.24 (ml/mb) was reported 49 kilometers (30 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Monday. Exact location, longitude -67.1991° West, latitude 18.9296° North, depth = 60 km. The 3.24-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:30:02 / 11:30 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 10/12/19 / 2019-12-10 03:30:02 / December 10, 2019 @ 3:30 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 60 km (37 miles). Unique identifier: pr2019344000. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019344000.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Las Marías, Lares, Añasco (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Lares (c. 7 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-nine, in the past 30 days eighty-seven and in the last 365 days seven hundred and eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 49 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.24 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.1991° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9296° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km 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 2019-12-10 03:30:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-10 03:54:26 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 162 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 0.4704 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 207 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 pr2019344000 Id of event.
Event Code 2019344000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019344000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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