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Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near Vieques in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on August 24, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.4698S, -65.4298WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 123 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico (76 miles). The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:36:28 / 11:36 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 110 km, -65.4298° West, 19.4698° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/08/15 / 2015-08-24 03:36:28 / August 24, 2015 @ 3:36 am. Unique identifier: pr15236002. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15236002. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 110 km (68 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fourty-nine, in the past 30 days two hundred and eight and in the last 365 days five hundred and eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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: 123 km NNE 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 -65.4298° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4698° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 110 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 123km 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 2015-08-24 03:36:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-24 08:15:20 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 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.16421661 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 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 pr15236002 Id of event.
Event Code 15236002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15236002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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