Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Small World Earthquakes

Minor earthquake: M3.13 quake has struck near Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.8925S, -66.865WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.13 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11.03 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: pr71460663. Unique identifier: pr71460663. Exact location of event, depth 11.03 km, -66.865° West, 17.8925° North. Global time and date of event 22/09/24 / 2024-09-22 02:46:22 / September 22, 2024 @ 2:46 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 02:46:22 / 2:46 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 30 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), 71 km (44 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guayama, Naranjito, Vega Baja (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

Did you feel anything?

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: 9 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico.

Copyright © 2024 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.13 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.865° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8925° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.03 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 02:46:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-22 03:29:33 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 151 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1448 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 204 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 pr71460663 Id of event.
Event Code 71460663 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr71460663, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply