Minor earthquake: M3.24 quake has struck near Hatillo in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.24 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Hatillo in Puerto Rico. The 3.24-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:04:09 / 4:04 am (local time epicenter). Event id: pr71467258. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr71467258. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 27.65 km (17 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -66.821166666667° West, 19.012666666667° North, depth 27.65 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/11/24 / 2024-11-30 04:04:09 / November 30, 2024 @ 4:04 am.

Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguada, Ceiba, Lares. Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.24 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.821166666667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.012666666667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	27.65 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	58 km N of Hatillo, 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	2024-11-30 04:04:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-30 04:30:20	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	162	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	23	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6079	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.23 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	268	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	pr71467258	Id of event.
Event Code	71467258	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71467258,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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