Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Vieques in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 146 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico (91 miles). Event id: pr15213001. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15213001. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/08/15 / 2015-08-01 02:12:47 / August 1, 2015 @ 2:12 am. Exact location of event, depth 60 km, -65.4255° West, 19.6951° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 60 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 22:12:47 / 10:12 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days seventy-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and two and in the last 365 days four hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 146 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.4255° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.6951° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	60 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	146km 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 02:12:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-01 02:38:44	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	121	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	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.38610048	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	284.4	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	pr15213001	Id of event.
Event Code	15213001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr15213001,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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