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Minor earthquake, 3.46 mag has occurred near G. L. Garcia in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on December 28, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.1098S, -66.0656WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.46 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from G. L. Garcia in Puerto Rico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24 km (15 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/12/24 / 2024-12-28 04:03:08 / December 28, 2024 @ 4:03 am. The 3.46-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:03:08 / 4:03 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -66.0656° West, latitude 18.1098° North, depth = 24 km. Id of earthquake: pr2024363001. Event ids that are associated: us6000pg32, pr2024363001.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Culebra, Yauco, Arecibo (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop). 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 fourteen, in the past 30 days thirty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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: 4 km ESE of G. L. Garcia, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.46 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.0656° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.1098° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4 km ESE 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 2024-12-28 04:03:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-28 04:48:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 9 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 188 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 ,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0844 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 124 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 pr2024363001 Id of event.
Event Code 2024363001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pg32,pr2024363001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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