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Minor earthquake, 3.83 mag was detected near Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on September 22, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.8976S, -66.8626WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.83 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico. Unique identifier: pr2024266000. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000ntn4, pr2024266000. Exact location of event, longitude -66.8626 West, latitude 17.8976 North, depth = 9 km. The 3.83-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:44:13 / 9:44 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 22/09/24 / 2024-09-22 09:44:13 / September 22, 2024 @ 9:44 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dorado, Campanilla, Toa Baja. Epicenter of the earthquake was 29 km (18 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 9 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.83 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8626° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8976° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9 km SSE of Maria Antonia, 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 09:44:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-22 10:26:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 226 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1953 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 202 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 pr2024266000 Id of event.
Event Code 2024266000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ntn4,pr2024266000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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