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Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near San Juan in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on August 11, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0791S, -65.978WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 69 kilometers (43 miles) from San Juan in Puerto Rico on Sunday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/08/24 / 2024-08-11 04:35:55 / August 11, 2024 @ 4:35 am. The temblor was reported at 04:35:55 / 4:35 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -65.978° West, latitude 19.0791° North, depth = 35 km. Unique identifier: pr2024224000. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000njg7, pr2024224000.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luquillo, Vega Alta, Pájaros (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 69 km (43 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 69 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.978° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0791° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69 km N of San Juan, 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 2024-08-11 04:35:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-11 05:10:41 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 pr The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us,pr, 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 0.7773 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 235 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 pr2024224000 Id of event.
Event Code 2024224000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000njg7,pr2024224000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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