Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag strikes near Rincón in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Rincón in Puerto Rico. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 140 km (87 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 04/05/24 / 2024-05-04 20:11:08 / May 4, 2024 @ 8:11 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 20:11:08 / 8:11 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -67.7145° West, latitude 18.318° North, depth = 140 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000mwcz, pr2024125000. Unique identifier: pr2024125000.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sabana Grande, Quebradillas, Maricao. Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from San Germán (c. 12 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-eight, in the last 10 days fourty-three, in the past 30 days fifty and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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. 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: 49 km W of Rincón, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.7145° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.318° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	140 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	49 km W of Rincón, 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	2024-05-04 20:11:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-05 00:00:24	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	222	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	,us,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	0.6216	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.38 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	169	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	pr2024125000	Id of event.
Event Code	2024125000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mwcz,pr2024125000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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