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Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near Vieques in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on August 1, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.3673S, -65.429WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) strikes 112 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico (70 miles) on Friday. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:22:41 / 9:22 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/08/15 / 2015-08-01 01:22:41 / August 1, 2015 @ 1:22 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15213000. Id of event: pr15213000. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 137 km (85 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -65.429 West, latitude 19.3673 North, depth = 137 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days seventy-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and eleven and in the last 365 days four hundred and sixty-nine 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 earthquakes 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 112 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.429° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3673° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 137 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 112km NNE of Vieques, 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 2015-08-01 01:22:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-01 02:10:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 ,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.06270698 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 255.6 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 pr15213000 Id of event.
Event Code 15213000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15213000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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