Minor earthquake, 3.31 mag has occurred near Culebra in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.31 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.252833333333 West, latitude 18.928 North, depth = 20.5 km. Id of earthquake: pr71453443. Event ids that are associated: pr71453443. The 3.31-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:32:20 / 7:32 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 20.5 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/06/24 / 2024-06-19 19:32:20 / June 19, 2024 @ 7:32 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fajardo, Luquillo, Charlotte Amalie. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Luquillo (c. 8 300 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 69 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.31 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.252833333333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.928° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	20.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	69 km N of Culebra, 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	2024-06-19 19:32:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-06-19 20:00:17	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	169	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	18	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6378	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	234	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	pr71453443	Id of event.
Event Code	71453443	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71453443,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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