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Minor earthquake, 3.13 mag was detected near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on July 24, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.8025S, -67.216333333333WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.13 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. The 3.13-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:22:53 / 11:22 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -67.216333333333° West, 18.8025° North, depth 19.92 km. Id of earthquake: pr71456193. Event ids that are associated: pr71456193. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.92 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/07/24 / 2024-07-24 23:22:53 / July 24, 2024 @ 11:22 pm.

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cabo Rojo, Hormigueros, Maricao.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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 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: 36 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.13 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.216333333333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8025° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36 km NNW 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 2024-07-24 23:22:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-24 23:33:45 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 151 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3478 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 303 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 pr71456193 Id of event.
Event Code 71456193 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr71456193, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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