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Minor earthquake, 3.33 mag strikes near La Luisa in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.469666666667S, -66.520833333333WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.33 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from La Luisa in Puerto Rico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 112.44 km (70 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr71466658. Unique identifier: pr71466658. Global time and date of event 24/11/24 / 2024-11-24 12:15:18 / November 24, 2024 @ 12:15 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 112.44 km, -66.520833333333° West, 18.469666666667° North. The temblor was picked up at 12:15:18 / 12:15 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Humacao, Cabo Rojo, Rincón. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 44 km (27 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days fourty-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-nine 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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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: 2 km NNW of La Luisa, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.33 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.520833333333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.469666666667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 112.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2 km NNW of La Luisa, 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 2024-11-24 12:15:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-24 13:15:20 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 171 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2529 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 181 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 pr71466658 Id of event.
Event Code 71466658 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr71466658, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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