Minor earthquake: M3.16 quake has struck near San Juan in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.16 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from San Juan in Puerto Rico. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/09/24 / 2024-09-20 06:00:15 / September 20, 2024 @ 6:00 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24.14 km (15 miles). The temblor was detected at 06:00:15 / 6:00 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr71460553. Unique identifier: pr71460553. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.044833333333 West, latitude 18.836166666667 North, depth = 24.14 km.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Humacao, Barranquitas, Orocovis. Earthquake epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 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 one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 41 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.16 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.044833333333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.836166666667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	24.14 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	41 km N of San Juan, 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	2024-09-20 06:00:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-20 06:26:52	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	154	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	0.5966	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.23 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	229	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	pr71460553	Id of event.
Event Code	71460553	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71460553,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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