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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Brenas in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on July 14, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.5899S, -66.3895WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Brenas in Puerto Rico. The temblor was picked up at 03:09:05 / 3:09 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 111.844 km, -66.3895° West, 18.5899° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/07/24 / 2024-07-14 03:09:05 / July 14, 2024 @ 3:09 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mz56. Id of event: us7000mz56. The epicenter was at a depth of 111.844 km (69 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fajardo, Sabana Grande, Maunabo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 33 km (20 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-nine 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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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: 14 km NNW of Brenas, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.3895° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.5899° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 111.844 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14 km NNW of Brenas, 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 2024-07-14 03:09:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-14 03:22:51 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 178 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, 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 0.174 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 172 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000mz56 Id of event.
Event Code 7000mz56 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mz56, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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