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Light earthquake: M4.04 quake has struck near Luquillo in Puerto Rico

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.04 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Luquillo in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.4763 West, latitude 18.9833 North, depth = 54 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 54 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.04-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:16:33 / 10:16 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000n0xt, pr2024146003. Id of event: pr2024146003. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/05/24 / 2024-05-25 10:16:33 / May 25, 2024 @ 10:16 am.

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Naguabo, Trujillo Alto, San Juan (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Río Grande (c. 13 500 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Canovanas (c. 8 400 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days fourty-two and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 72 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.04 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.4763° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.9833° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	54 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	72 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	2024-05-25 10:16:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-25 11:48:02	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	251	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	16	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.8131	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.54 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	232	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	pr2024146003	Id of event.
Event Code	2024146003	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000n0xt,pr2024146003,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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