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Minor earthquake 3.42 mag, 70 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.054166666667S, -65.738666666667WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.42 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Suárez in Puerto Rico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.49 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/05/24 / 2024-05-09 03:48:34 / May 9, 2024 @ 3:48 am. The temblor was picked up at 03:48:34 / 3:48 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr71448163. Ids that are associated to the event: pr71448163. Exact location of event, longitude -65.738666666667 West, latitude 19.054166666667 North, depth = 9.49 km.

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 Trujillo Alto, Levittown, Fajardo. Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 70 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.42 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.738666666667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.054166666667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70 km N of Suárez, 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 2024-05-09 03:48:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-09 18:11:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 180 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 0.8367 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 247 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 pr71448163 Id of event.
Event Code 71448163 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr71448163, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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