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Minor earthquake 3.4 mag, 130 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.5093S, -65.3355WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 130 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico (81 miles). Exact location of event, depth 12 km, -65.3355° West, 19.5093° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/09/15 / 2015-09-05 08:41:10 / September 5, 2015 @ 8:41 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12 km (7 miles). The temblor was picked up at 04:41:10 / 4:41 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr15248009. Unique identifier: pr15248009.

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty-nine and in the last 365 days six hundred and twenty-three 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 130 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.3355° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.5093° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 130km 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 2015-09-05 08:41:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-05 09:08:15 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 178 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 1.19565764 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 234 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 pr15248009 Id of event.
Event Code 15248009 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15248009, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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