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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag was detected near Hatillo in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) strikes 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Hatillo in Puerto Rico on Saturday. Event id: pr2024251001. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2024251001. Exact location of event, depth 21 km, -66.7403° West, 18.99° North. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:08:14 / 10:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/09/24 / 2024-09-07 22:08:14 / September 7, 2024 @ 10:08 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 21 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Las Marías, Candelaria, Sabana Seca (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Candelaria (c. 17 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 56 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.7403° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.99° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	21 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	56 km N of Hatillo, 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	2024-09-07 22:08:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-07 23:03:00	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	211	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.8724	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	199	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	pr2024251001	Id of event.
Event Code	2024251001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2024251001,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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