Minor earthquake: M3.89 quake has struck near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.89 (ml/mb) strikes 56 kilometers (35 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/05/24 / 2024-05-08 14:19:16 / May 8, 2024 @ 2:19 pm. Exact location of event, depth 99 km, -67.2643° West, 18.9765° North. The temblor was picked up at 14:19:16 / 2:19 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 99 km (62 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mx8p, pr2024129000. Id of event: pr2024129000.

The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Lares (c. 7 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mayagüez, Lares, Las Marías.

In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days twenty-seven, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 56 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.89 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.2643° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.9765° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	99 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	56 km 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	2024-05-08 14:19:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-14 08:25:31	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	233	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	15	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.5315	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.51 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	213	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	pr2024129000	Id of event.
Event Code	2024129000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mx8p,pr2024129000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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