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

Posted by admin on September 22, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.7778S, -66.8641WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Guánica in Puerto Rico. Id of earthquake: us6000ntn4. Event ids that are associated: us6000ntn4. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:44:11 / 9:44 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 6.221 km, -66.8641° West, 17.7778° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/09/24 / 2024-09-22 09:44:11 / September 22, 2024 @ 9:44 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.221 km (4 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cidra, Corozal, Comerío (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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. 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: 21 km SSE of Guánica, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8641° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.7778° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.221 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21 km SSE of Guánica, 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 2024-09-22 09:44:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-22 09:58:19 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 us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.256 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 92 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000ntn4 Id of event.
Event Code 6000ntn4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ntn4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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