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Minor earthquake, 3.23 mag has occurred near San Juan in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.750333333333S, -65.9815WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.23 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from San Juan in Puerto Rico. All ids that are associated to the event: pr71468263. Unique identifier: pr71468263. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 47.4 km (29 miles). Exact location of event, depth 47.4 km, -65.9815° West, 18.750333333333° North. The temblor was reported at 06:47:25 / 6:47 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 11/12/24 / 2024-12-11 06:47:25 / December 11, 2024 @ 6:47 am UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yabucoa, Estancias de Florida, Florida. Epicenter of the event was 34 km (21 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop).

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

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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: 34 km NNE of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.23 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.9815° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.750333333333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34 km NNE 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 2024-12-11 06:47:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-11 07:05:21 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 161 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4495 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 208 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 pr71468263 Id of event.
Event Code 71468263 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr71468263, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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