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Minor earthquake 2.91 mag, 76 km N of Vieques, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.1125S, -65.7561WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Vieques in Puerto Rico. Id of earthquake: pr2017330006. Event ids that are associated: pr2017330006. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.7561 West, latitude 19.1125 North, depth = 25 km. The temblor was picked up at 13:14:11 / 1:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/11/17 / 2017-11-26 17:14:11 / November 26, 2017 @ 5:14 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Loíza (c. 4 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Loíza (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 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 three hundred and eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 76 km N of Vieques, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.91 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.7561° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1125° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76km N 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 2017-11-26 17:14:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-26 21:10:00 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 130 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.2578 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 344 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 pr2017330006 Id of event.
Event Code 2017330006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2017330006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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