Minor earthquake, 3.42 mag was detected near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.42 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.172833333333 West, latitude 18.5115 North, depth = 91.85 km. Event id: pr71453828. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr71453828. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/06/24 / 2024-06-23 12:29:10 / June 23, 2024 @ 12:29 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 91.85 km (57 miles). The temblor was detected at 12:29:10 / 12:29 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 81 km (50 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Villalba, Morovis, Vega Baja (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days fifty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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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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. 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: 8 km WNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.42 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.172833333333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.5115° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	91.85 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8 km WNW 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	2024-06-23 12:29:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-06-23 13:11:37	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	180	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	24	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03554	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	249	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	pr71453828	Id of event.
Event Code	71453828	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71453828,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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