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Minor earthquake, 3.19 mag was detected near Vieques in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on July 20, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.562S, -65.3061WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.19 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 137 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico (85 miles). The 3.19-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:56:50 / 10:56 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/07/19 / 2019-07-20 02:56:50 / July 20, 2019 @ 2:56 am. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019201003. Unique identifier: pr2019201003. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.3061 West, latitude 19.562 North, depth = 73 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 73 km (45 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 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 two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days four hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 137 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.19 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.3061° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.562° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 137km 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 2019-07-20 02:56:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-20 04:38:42 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 157 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.4745 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 332 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 pr2019201003 Id of event.
Event Code 2019201003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019201003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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