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Minor earthquake, 3.11 mag was detected near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on May 24, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.800666666667S, -67.239WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.11 (ml/mb) strikes 37 kilometers (23 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.239 West, latitude 18.800666666667 North, depth = 12.47 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr71449758. Id of event: pr71449758. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/05/24 / 2024-05-21 12:44:59 / May 21, 2024 @ 12:44 pm. The 3.11-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:44:59 / 12:44 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 12.47 km (8 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cabo Rojo, Hormigueros, Maricao (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days fifty and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 37 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.11 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.239° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.800666666667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37 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 2024-05-21 12:44:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-21 13:54:23 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 149 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3529 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 308 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 pr71449758 Id of event.
Event Code 71449758 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr71449758, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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