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Minor earthquake, 3.18 mag was detected near Pole Ojea in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.993166666667S, -67.311333333333WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.18 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Pole Ojea in Puerto Rico. Id of earthquake: pr71466133. Event ids that are associated: pr71466133. The 3.18-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:13:01 / 9:13 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -67.311333333333° West, 17.993166666667° North, depth 33.5 km. Global time and date of event 19/11/24 / 2024-11-19 09:13:01 / November 19, 2024 @ 9:13 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33.5 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Jayuya, Hatillo, Ponce. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 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-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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. 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: 13 km W of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.18 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.311333333333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.993166666667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13 km W of Pole Ojea, 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 2024-11-19 09:13:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-19 09:52:49 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 156 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 0.1924 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 277 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 pr71466133 Id of event.
Event Code 71466133 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr71466133, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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