Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near San Juan in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 67 kilometers (42 miles) from San Juan in Puerto Rico on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.85 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/11/24 / 2024-11-28 06:42:28 / November 28, 2024 @ 6:42 am. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:42:28 / 6:42 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr71467048. Unique identifier: pr71467048. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.985333333333 West, latitude 19.0655 North, depth = 20.85 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vega Alta, Pájaros, Vega Baja. Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twenty-six, in the past 30 days fifty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 67 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.985333333333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.0655° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	20.85 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	67 km N 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 06:42:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-28 06:56:11	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	168	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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.7581	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.21 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	259	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	pr71467048	Id of event.
Event Code	71467048	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71467048,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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