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Minor earthquake, 3.17 mag was detected near Brenas in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.0725S, -66.3785WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.17 (ml/mb) was reported 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Brenas in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/10/24 / 2024-10-30 02:45:13 / October 30, 2024 @ 2:45 am UTC/GMT. Event id: pr71464203. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr71464203. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39.86 km (25 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.3785 West, latitude 19.0725 North, depth = 39.86 km. The temblor was reported at 02:45:13 / 2:45 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hatillo, Pájaros, Bayamón (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop).

Every 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 seven, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 67 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.17 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.3785° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0725° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.86 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67 km N of Brenas, 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 2024-10-30 02:45:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-30 03:13:36 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 155 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 0.6093 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 247 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 pr71464203 Id of event.
Event Code 71464203 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr71464203, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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