Minor earthquake 3.4 mag, 130 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 130 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico (81 miles) on Sunday. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:28:43 / 10:28 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr15333010. Unique identifier: pr15333010. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 62 km (39 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.4822 West, latitude 19.551 North, depth = 62 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/11/15 / 2015-11-29 14:28:43 / November 29, 2015 @ 2:28 pm.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days six hundred and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 130 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.4822° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.551° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	62 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	130km 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	2015-11-29 14:28:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-11-29 15:03:58	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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.24955656	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.34 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	273.6	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	pr15333010	Id of event.
Event Code	15333010	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr15333010,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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