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Minor earthquake: M3.52 quake has struck near La Parguera in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.52 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from La Parguera in Puerto Rico on Thursday. The 3.52-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:06:57 / 10:06 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 29/08/24 / 2024-08-29 22:06:57 / August 29, 2024 @ 10:06 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.0055 West, latitude 17.9666 North, depth = 8 km. Id of earthquake: pr2024242000. Event ids that are associated: us6000nnkb, pr2024242000. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aibonito, Coco, Barranquitas (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 42 km (26 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 4 km ESE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.52 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.0055° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9666° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4 km ESE of La Parguera, 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	2024-08-29 22:06:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-29 22:47:53	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	5	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.093	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	192	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	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0388	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	176	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	pr2024242000	Id of event.
Event Code	2024242000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nnkb,pr2024242000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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