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Minor earthquake: M3.37 quake has struck near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.929166666667S, -67.470833333333WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.37 (ml/mb) was reported 62 kilometers (39 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/05/24 / 2024-05-08 13:54:48 / May 8, 2024 @ 1:54 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -67.470833333333 West, latitude 18.929166666667 North, depth = 57.78 km. The 3.37-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:54:48 / 1:54 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: pr71448083. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mx8k, pr71448083. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 57.78 km (36 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Añasco, Quebradillas, Moca. Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 62 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.37 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.470833333333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.929166666667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62 km NW 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 13:54:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-14 08:17:12 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 175 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5719 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 208 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 pr71448083 Id of event.
Event Code 71448083 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mx8k,pr71448083, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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