Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Vieques in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 135 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico (84 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 74 km (46 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:17:26 / 2:17 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -65.4692° West, 19.5984° North, depth 74 km. Global time and date of event 01/08/15 / 2015-08-01 18:17:26 / August 1, 2015 @ 6:17 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: pr15213013. Event ids that are associated: pr15213013.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days eighty, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 135 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.4692° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.5984° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	74 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	135km 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	2015-08-01 18:17:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-01 18:46:57	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	148	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	11	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.29447232	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	277.2	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	pr15213013	Id of event.
Event Code	15213013	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr15213013,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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