Minor earthquake, 3.57 mag has occurred near Pole Ojea in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.57 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 96 km SW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico (60 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2024347000. Unique identifier: pr2024347000. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 12/12/24 / 2024-12-12 06:04:26 / December 12, 2024 @ 6:04 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -67.8143 West, latitude 17.344 North, depth = 25 km. The temblor was picked up at 06:04:26 / 6:04 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 96 km SW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.57 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.8143° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.344° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	25 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	96 km SW of Pole Ojea, 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	2024-12-12 06:04:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-12 06:38:13	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	196	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	17	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.9671	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.34 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	322	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	pr2024347000	Id of event.
Event Code	2024347000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2024347000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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