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Minor earthquake 3.13 mag, 69 km NNE of San Juan, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.080666666667S, -65.964833333333WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.13 (ml/mb) strikes 69 kilometers (43 miles) from San Juan in Puerto Rico on Thursday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/11/24 / 2024-11-28 11:49:40 / November 28, 2024 @ 11:49 am. All ids that are associated to the event: pr71467088. Unique identifier: pr71467088. The 3.13-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:49:40 / 11:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 24.03 km, -65.964833333333° West, 19.080666666667° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 24.03 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Cataño (c. 28 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Candelaria, Río Grande, San Antonio.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twenty-eight, in the past 30 days fifty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

Questions or comments?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 69 km NNE of San Juan, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.13 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.964833333333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.080666666667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69 km NNE of San Juan, 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 2024-11-28 11:49:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-28 12:55:26 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 151 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 0.7757 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 254 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 pr71467088 Id of event.
Event Code 71467088 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr71467088, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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