Minor earthquake, 3.14 mag was detected near Potala Pastillo in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.14 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Potala Pastillo in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, longitude -66.506333333333 West, latitude 17.948 North, depth = 10.84 km. Unique identifier: pr71445813. Ids that are associated to the event: pr71445813. The temblor was reported at 13:15:40 / 1:15 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10.84 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/04/24 / 2024-04-17 13:15:40 / April 17, 2024 @ 1:15 pm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Canovanas, Santa Barbara, Añasco (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-nine, in the last 10 days twenty-nine, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 4 km SSW of Potala Pastillo, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.14 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.506333333333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.948° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.84 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4 km SSW of Potala Pastillo, 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	2024-04-17 13:15:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-04-17 13:42:53	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	152	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	15	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.06436	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.11 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	111	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	pr71445813	Id of event.
Event Code	71445813	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71445813,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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