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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag has occurred near Vieques in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.5765S, -65.3168WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 138 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico (86 miles). The 3.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:02:16 / 12:02 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 68 km (42 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: pr15337000. Unique identifier: pr15337000. Global time and date of event 03/12/15 / 2015-12-03 04:02:16 / December 3, 2015 @ 4:02 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -65.3168° West, latitude 19.5765° North, depth = 68 km.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days thirty-eight and in the last 365 days six hundred and sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 138 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.3168° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.5765° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 138km 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 2015-12-03 04:02:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-03 04:27:52 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 211 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 1.26213297 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 266.4 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 pr15337000 Id of event.
Event Code 15337000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15337000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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