Minor earthquake, 3.32 mag was detected near Stella in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.32 (ml/mb) was reported 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Stella in Puerto Rico on Saturday. The 3.32-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:17:24 / 7:17 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/08/24 / 2024-08-31 07:17:24 / August 31, 2024 @ 7:17 am. Unique identifier: pr71458743. Ids that are associated to the event: pr71458743. Exact location, longitude -67.787° West, latitude 18.198° North, depth = 83.61 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 83.61 km (52 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Germán, Lajas, Punta Cana. Earthquake epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from San Germán (c. 12 100 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-three 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 58 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.32 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.787° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.198° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	83.61 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	58 km WSW of Stella, 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	2024-08-31 07:17:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-31 07:46:03	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	170	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	18	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.5289	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.31 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	185	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	pr71458743	Id of event.
Event Code	71458743	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71458743,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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