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Minor earthquake: M3.29 quake has struck near Luquillo in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.29 (ml/mb) was reported 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Luquillo in Puerto Rico on Monday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/08/24 / 2024-08-19 08:28:37 / August 19, 2024 @ 8:28 am. The 3.29-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:28:37 / 8:28 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr71457763. Unique identifier: pr71457763. Exact location of event, depth 47.46 km, -65.462666666667° West, 18.848° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 47.46 km (29 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 80 km (50 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Santiago, San Juan, Charlotte Amalie (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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: 59 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.29 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.462666666667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.848° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	47.46 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	59 km NNE of Luquillo, 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	2024-08-19 08:28:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-19 08:41:48	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	167	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	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.5421	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	220	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	pr71457763	Id of event.
Event Code	71457763	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71457763,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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