Minor earthquake, 3.58 mag has occurred near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.58 (ml/mb) was reported 70 kilometers (43 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Friday. Id of earthquake: pr2024236000. Event ids that are associated: pr2024236000. The 3.58-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:11:25 / 12:11 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -67.524° West, 18.988° North, depth 24 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 24 km (15 miles). Global time and date of event 23/08/24 / 2024-08-23 00:11:25 / August 23, 2024 @ 12:11 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Quebradillas, Moca, Rincón (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Rincón (c. 1 500 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 70 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.58 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.524° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.988° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	24 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	70 km NW 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	2024-08-23 00:11:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-23 00:30:28	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	197	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	11	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6643	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.34 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	304	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	pr2024236000	Id of event.
Event Code	2024236000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2024236000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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