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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Vieques in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.1222S, -65.6928WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 78 km N of Vieques, Puerto Rico (48 miles). The temblor was picked up at 09:13:05 / 9:13 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 63 km (39 miles). Exact location, longitude -65.6928° West, latitude 19.1222° North, depth = 63 km. Event id: pr17104046. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr17104046. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/04/17 / 2017-04-14 13:13:05 / April 14, 2017 @ 1:13 pm.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days sixty-seven and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 78 km N of Vieques, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.6928° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1222° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 78km N 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 2017-04-14 13:13:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-14 16:04:31 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 129 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.85878941 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 291.6 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 pr17104046 Id of event.
Event Code 17104046 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr17104046, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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