Minor earthquake 3.3 mag, 64 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:41:30 / 10:41 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -65.340333333333° West, latitude 18.883333333333° North, depth = 22.51 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/04/24 / 2024-04-23 22:41:30 / April 23, 2024 @ 10:41 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 22.51 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: pr71446323. Event ids that are associated: us6000mtah, pr71446323.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 70 km (44 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Río Grande (c. 13 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Canovanas (c. 8 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Luquillo (c. 8 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Barbara, Canovanas, San Isidro.

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-one, in the last 10 days fourty-four, in the past 30 days fourty-four and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.340333333333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.883333333333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	22.51 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	64 km N of Culebra, 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	2024-04-23 22:41:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-04-23 23:16:41	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	168	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	27	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6224	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.26 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	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	pr71446323	Id of event.
Event Code	71446323	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mtah,pr71446323,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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