Minor earthquake 3.41 mag, 101 km N of Vieques, Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.41 (ml/mb) was reported 101 km N of Vieques, Puerto Rico (63 miles) on Monday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 117 km (73 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 09:48:07 / 9:48 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -65.7736° West, latitude 19.3413° North, depth = 117 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/08/18 / 2018-08-20 13:48:07 / August 20, 2018 @ 1:48 pm. Unique identifier: pr2018232006. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018232006.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 101 km N of Vieques, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.41 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.7736° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.3413° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	117 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	101km 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	2018-08-20 13:48:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-08-20 21:00:53	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	179	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	5	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.1481	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	348	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	pr2018232006	Id of event.
Event Code	2018232006	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018232006,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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