Minor earthquake: M3.13 quake has struck near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.13 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. The temblor was detected at 01:09:26 / 1:09 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 42.04 km, -67.303833333333° West, 18.649333333333° North. All ids that are associated to the event: pr71458118. Unique identifier: pr71458118. The epicenter was at a depth of 42.04 km (26 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/08/24 / 2024-08-24 01:09:26 / August 24, 2024 @ 1:09 am.

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 53 km (33 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from San Germán (c. 12 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Utuado, Sabana Grande, Lajas (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 27 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.13 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.303833333333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.649333333333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	42.04 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27 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	2024-08-24 01:09:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-24 01:25:51	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	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	6	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2571	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.09 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	307	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	pr71458118	Id of event.
Event Code	71458118	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71458118,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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