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Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near Vieques in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on August 10, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.5279S, -65.545WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 125 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico (78 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr15222011. Unique identifier: pr15222011. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:26:07 / 7:26 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.545 West, latitude 19.5279 North, depth = 70 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/08/15 / 2015-08-10 11:26:07 / August 10, 2015 @ 11:26 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 70 km (43 miles) below the earth’s surface.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days ninety-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and eighty-six and in the last 365 days five hundred and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 125 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.545° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.5279° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 70 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 125km 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 2015-08-10 11:26:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-10 17:51:54 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 168 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 3 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.23787846 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 331.2 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 pr15222011 Id of event.
Event Code 15222011 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15222011, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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