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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag was detected near Culebra in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 49.974 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 49.974 km, -65.2617° West, 18.8641° North. Event id: us7000nvie. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nvie. The temblor was picked up at 20:43:41 / 8:43 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/12/24 / 2024-12-02 20:43:41 / December 2, 2024 @ 8:43 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Isabel Segunda, Loíza, Río Grande. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 73 km (45 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Río Grande (c. 13 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Luquillo (c. 8 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirty-five, in the past 30 days seventy-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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. 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: 62 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.2617° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.8641° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	49.974 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	62 km N of Culebra, 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	2024-12-02 20:43:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-02 21:07:07	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	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	18	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.586	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.46 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	213	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000nvie	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nvie	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nvie,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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