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Minor earthquake, 3.14 mag has occurred near Santa Isabel in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.426833333333S, -66.481WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.14 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Santa Isabel in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/12/24 / 2024-12-03 09:01:40 / December 3, 2024 @ 9:01 am. All ids that are associated to the event: pr71467608. Unique identifier: pr71467608. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.481 West, latitude 17.426833333333 North, depth = 10.75 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10.75 km (7 miles). The temblor was picked up at 09:01:40 / 9:01 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yauco, Villalba, Guánica (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 66 km (41 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Coamo (c. 11 900 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Juana Díaz (c. 9 400 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 60 km S of Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.14 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.481° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.426833333333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60 km S of Santa Isabel, 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 2024-12-03 09:01:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-03 09:21:15 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 152 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6241 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 266 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 pr71467608 Id of event.
Event Code 71467608 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr71467608, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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