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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Vieques in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on March 30, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9326S, -65.5316WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Vieques in Puerto Rico. Exact location, longitude -65.5316° West, latitude 18.9326° North, depth = 11 km. Global time and date of event 30/03/16 / 2016-03-30 02:37:28 / March 30, 2016 @ 2:37 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16090000. Id of event: pr16090000. The epicenter was at a depth of 11 km (7 miles). The temblor was detected at 22:37:28 / 10:37 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 80 km (49 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Cataño (c. 28 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Naguabo, Cataño, Trujillo Alto (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days seven hundred and seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 64 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 -65.5316° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9326° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km 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 2016-03-30 02:37:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-30 03:05:32 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.66475331 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 223.2 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 pr16090000 Id of event.
Event Code 16090000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16090000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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