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Minor earthquake, 3.15 mag has occurred near Luquillo in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on May 24, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.740666666667S, -65.561166666667WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.15 (ml/mb) was reported 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Luquillo in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, -65.561166666667° West, 18.740666666667° North, depth 55.44 km. Event id: pr71447443. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mvj4, pr71447443. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 55.44 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.15-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:29:51 / 8:29 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 01/05/24 / 2024-05-01 20:29:51 / May 1, 2024 @ 8:29 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Charlotte Amalie, Campanilla, Aguas Buenas (min 5000 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 eighteen, in the last 10 days fourty-one, in the past 30 days fourty-four and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 43 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.15 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.561166666667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.740666666667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43 km NNE of Luquillo, 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 2024-05-01 20:29:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-09 17:09:44 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 153 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 32 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4131 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 209 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 pr71447443 Id of event.
Event Code 71447443 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mvj4,pr71447443, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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