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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.1088S, -67.265WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr17024004. Id of event: pr17024004. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 36 km (22 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -67.265 West, latitude 19.1088 North, depth = 36 km. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:18:47 / 4:18 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/01/17 / 2017-01-24 08:18:47 / January 24, 2017 @ 8:18 am.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguada, Moca, Quebradillas (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

Questions or comments?

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: 70 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.265° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1088° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km NNW 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 2017-01-24 08:18:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-24 12:31:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 168 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.65397353 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 230.4 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 pr17024004 Id of event.
Event Code 17024004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr17024004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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