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Minor earthquake 3.81 mag, 119 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.6123S, -65.3475WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.81 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 119 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico (74 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/04/20 / 2020-04-26 23:13:19 / April 26, 2020 @ 11:13 pm. Id of earthquake: pr2020117028. Event ids that are associated: pr2020117028, us60009cyt. Exact location, longitude -65.3475° West, latitude 19.6123° North, depth = 58 km. The 3.81-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:13:19 / 7:13 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 58 km (36 miles).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 119 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.81 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.3475° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.6123° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 119km 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 2020-04-26 23:13:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-27 01:28:52 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 223 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.3064 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 278 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 pr2020117028 Id of event.
Event Code 2020117028 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020117028,us60009cyt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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