Minor earthquake: M3.16 quake has struck near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.16 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. The 3.16-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:43:10 / 5:43 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr71450003. Ids that are associated to the event: pr71450003. Exact location of event, longitude -67.1075 West, latitude 18.824333333333 North, depth = 9.61 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.61 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 24/05/24 / 2024-05-24 05:43:10 / May 24, 2024 @ 5:43 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 69 km (43 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Manatí, Florida, Estancias de Florida (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 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 four, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days fourty-six 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 36 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.16 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.1075° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.824333333333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.61 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	36 km N 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	2024-05-24 05:43:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-24 06:03:57	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	154	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	8	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6455	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.37 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	301	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	pr71450003	Id of event.
Event Code	71450003	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71450003,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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