Minor earthquake, 3.35 mag has occurred near G. L. Garcia in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.35 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from G. L. Garcia in Puerto Rico. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/12/24 / 2024-12-23 05:46:38 / December 23, 2024 @ 5:46 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2024358000. Id of event: pr2024358000. The temblor was detected at 05:46:38 / 5:46 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 25 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 25 km, -66.0708° West, 18.1018° North.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 41 km (25 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop). Nearby 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 Arecibo, Guayanilla, Adjuntas.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 4 km SE of G. L. Garcia, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.35 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.0708° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.1018° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	25 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4 km SE of G. L. Garcia, 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	2024-12-23 05:46:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-23 06:37:40	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	173	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	0.0795	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	128	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	pr2024358000	Id of event.
Event Code	2024358000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2024358000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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