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Minor earthquake 3.21 mag, 25 km SW of Stella, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.156666666667S, -67.408166666667WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.21 (ml/mb) strikes 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Stella in Puerto Rico on Monday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.89 km (4 miles). Id of earthquake: pr71466058. Event ids that are associated: pr71466058. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/11/24 / 2024-11-18 04:17:40 / November 18, 2024 @ 4:17 am. Exact location of event, longitude -67.408166666667 West, latitude 18.156666666667 North, depth = 5.89 km. The temblor was picked up at 04:17:40 / 4:17 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Utuado, Peñuelas, Adjuntas.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days fourty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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: 25 km SW of Stella, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.21 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.408166666667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.156666666667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25 km SW of Stella, 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 2024-11-18 04:17:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-18 04:48:17 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 159 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2345 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 281 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 pr71466058 Id of event.
Event Code 71466058 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr71466058, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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