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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Vieques in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on October 21, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1432S, -65.4369WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 89 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico (55 miles) on Friday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/10/16 / 2016-10-21 06:00:55 / October 21, 2016 @ 6:00 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 28 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 02:00:55 / 2:00 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -65.4369° West, 19.1432° North, depth 28 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16295002. Id of event: pr16295002.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days four hundred and sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 89 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.4369° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1432° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 89km 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 2016-10-21 06:00:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-21 07:50:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 148 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.84351805 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 280.8 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 pr16295002 Id of event.
Event Code 16295002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16295002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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