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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag strikes near Vieques in Puerto Rico

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Earthquake location 19.0543S, -65.2942WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 97 kilometers (60 miles) from Vieques in Puerto Rico. The epicenter was at a depth of 98 km (61 miles). Id of earthquake: pr15332007. Event ids that are associated: us100041yf, pr15332007. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:29:21 / 7:29 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -65.2942° West, 19.0543° North, depth 98 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/11/15 / 2015-11-28 23:29:21 / November 28, 2015 @ 11:29 pm.

The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Culebra. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days fourty-three and in the last 365 days six hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 97 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.2942° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0543° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 97km 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 2015-11-28 23:29:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-29 00:14:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 222 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 ,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.74200842 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 237.6 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 pr15332007 Id of event.
Event Code 15332007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100041yf,pr15332007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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