Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag was detected near Vieques in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 117 km N of Vieques, Puerto Rico (73 miles). The temblor was detected at 04:34:51 / 4:34 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr15236006. Event ids that are associated: pr15236006. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 98 km (61 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -65.6895 West, latitude 19.4776 North, depth = 98 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/08/15 / 2015-08-24 08:34:51 / August 24, 2015 @ 8:34 am.

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

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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: 117 km N of Vieques, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.6895° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.4776° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	98 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	117km N 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	2015-08-24 08:34:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-24 14:15:45	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	178	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	10	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.20913237	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	266.4	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	pr15236006	Id of event.
Event Code	15236006	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr15236006,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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