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Minor earthquake: M3.14 quake has struck near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.115833333333S, -67.541666666667WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.14 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 83 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico (52 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.541666666667 West, latitude 19.115833333333 North, depth = 7.43 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/09/24 / 2024-09-18 15:41:54 / September 18, 2024 @ 3:41 pm. The 3.14-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:41:54 / 3:41 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.43 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nswc, pr71460523. Id of event: pr71460523.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 83 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.14 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.541666666667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.115833333333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83 km NW of San Antonio, 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 2024-09-18 15:41:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-19 04:35:06 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 152 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.763 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 210 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 pr71460523 Id of event.
Event Code 71460523 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nswc,pr71460523, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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