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Minor earthquake, 3.33 mag was detected near Esperanza in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.33 (ml/mb) strikes 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Esperanza in Puerto Rico on Saturday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.12 km (3 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/06/24 / 2024-06-15 05:21:16 / June 15, 2024 @ 5:21 am. The 3.33-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:21:16 / 5:21 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -65.183333333333° West, 17.955333333333° North, depth 5.12 km. Event id: pr71452718. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr71452718.

Event epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Humacao (c. 20 400 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tortola, Road Town, Las Piedras. Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 34 km ESE of Esperanza, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.33 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.183333333333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.955333333333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.12 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	34 km ESE of Esperanza, 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	2024-06-15 05:21:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-06-15 08:36:37	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	171	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	0.45	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	222	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	pr71452718	Id of event.
Event Code	71452718	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71452718,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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