Minor earthquake: M3.17 quake has struck near Garrochales in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.17 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Garrochales in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, longitude -66.608666666667 West, latitude 18.5375 North, depth = 94.21 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 94.21 km (59 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.17-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:01:50 / 4:01 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/11/24 / 2024-11-23 16:01:50 / November 23, 2024 @ 4:01 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr71466428. Id of event: pr71466428.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Juncos, Puerto Real, San Lorenzo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 54 km (33 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km NNW of Garrochales, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.17 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.608666666667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.5375° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	94.21 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10 km NNW of Garrochales, 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	2024-11-23 16:01:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-23 16:28:00	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	16	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0962	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	198	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	pr71466428	Id of event.
Event Code	71466428	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71466428,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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