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Minor earthquake, 3.42 mag has occurred near Rincón in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.390666666667S, -67.396833333333WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.42 (ml/mb) was reported 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Rincón in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Unique identifier: pr71462063. Ids that are associated to the event: pr71462063. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13.81 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/10/24 / 2024-10-08 10:09:01 / October 8, 2024 @ 10:09 am. The 3.42-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:09:01 / 10:09 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -67.396833333333° West, latitude 18.390666666667° North, depth = 13.81 km.

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Peñuelas, Guayanilla, Adjuntas.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 eleven, in the past 30 days fifty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 16 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.42 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.396833333333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.390666666667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16 km WNW of Rincón, 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 2024-10-08 10:09:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-08 10:41:13 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 180 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1491 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 148 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 pr71462063 Id of event.
Event Code 71462063 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr71462063, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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