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Minor earthquake, 3.18 mag strikes near Dorado in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on September 8, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.587166666667S, -66.257333333333WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.18 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Dorado in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, longitude -66.257333333333 West, latitude 18.587166666667 North, depth = 99.85 km. The temblor was detected at 07:34:40 / 7:34 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 08/09/24 / 2024-09-08 07:34:40 / September 8, 2024 @ 7:34 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr71459503. Ids that are associated to the event: pr71459503. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 99.85 km (62 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Peñuelas, Maunabo, Ponce (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 14 km N of Dorado, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.18 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.257333333333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.587166666667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 99.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14 km N of Dorado, 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 2024-09-08 07:34:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-08 08:06:18 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 156 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4863 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 223 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 pr71459503 Id of event.
Event Code 71459503 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr71459503, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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