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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Vieques in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.9972S, -65.6147WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Vieques in Puerto Rico on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 100 km (62 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/07/16 / 2016-07-14 09:20:12 / July 14, 2016 @ 9:20 am. Exact location of event, depth 100 km, -65.6147° West, 18.9972° North. The temblor was reported at 05:20:12 / 5:20 am (local time epicenter). Event id: pr16196001. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16196001.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Juan, Carolina, Canovanas. Event epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Río Grande (c. 13 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Canovanas (c. 8 400 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 67 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.6147° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9972° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 100 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km 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 2016-07-14 09:20:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-14 11:45:18 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 158 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.87855235 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 248.4 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 pr16196001 Id of event.
Event Code 16196001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16196001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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