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Minor earthquake 3.15 mag, 63 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on December 5, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.003S, -65.805WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.15 (ml/mb) was reported 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Suárez in Puerto Rico on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.805 West, latitude 19.003 North, depth = 6.11 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.11 km (4 miles). The temblor was picked up at 14:23:32 / 2:23 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/12/24 / 2024-12-05 14:23:32 / December 5, 2024 @ 2:23 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr71467873. Id of event: pr71467873.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Campanilla, Candelaria, Guaynabo. Event epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days thirty-five, in the past 30 days eighty and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 63 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.15 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.805° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.003° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63 km N of Suárez, 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 2024-12-05 14:23:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-05 14:44:30 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 153 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.739 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 230 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 pr71467873 Id of event.
Event Code 71467873 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr71467873, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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