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Minor earthquake: M3.27 quake has struck near Bajandas in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on September 3, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.114S, -65.765WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.27 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Bajandas in Puerto Rico. The temblor was reported at 21:45:56 / 9:45 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr71459223. Event ids that are associated: us6000npkb, pr71459223. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10.3 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -65.765° West, 18.114° North, depth 10.3 km. Global time and date of event 03/09/24 / 2024-09-03 21:45:56 / September 3, 2024 @ 9:45 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Juana Díaz, Ciales, Villalba. Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 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 five, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 5 km SSE of Bajandas, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.27 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.765° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.114° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km SSE of Bajandas, 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 2024-09-03 21:45:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-03 22:17:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 165 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0717 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 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 pr71459223 Id of event.
Event Code 71459223 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000npkb,pr71459223, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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