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Minor earthquake, 3.44 mag has occurred near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on December 14, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0085S, -67.178833333333WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.44 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. The temblor was picked up at 07:20:56 / 7:20 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr71468528. Event ids that are associated: pr71468528. Exact location of earthquake, -67.178833333333° West, 19.0085° North, depth 7.55 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.55 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/12/24 / 2024-12-14 07:20:56 / December 14, 2024 @ 7:20 am UTC/GMT.

The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Añasco, San Sebastián, Arecibo. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days fourty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 57 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.44 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.178833333333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0085° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57 km N of San Antonio, 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 2024-12-14 07:20:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-14 08:05:38 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 182 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5376 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 219 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 pr71468528 Id of event.
Event Code 71468528 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr71468528, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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