Minor earthquake, 3.14 mag strikes near Vieques in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.14 (ml/mb) strikes 142 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico (88 miles) on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.3533 West, latitude 19.628 North, depth = 46 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 46 km (29 miles). The temblor was detected at 09:37:07 / 9:37 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 05/10/18 / 2018-10-05 13:37:07 / October 5, 2018 @ 1:37 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: pr2018278007. Event ids that are associated: pr2018278007.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 142 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.14 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.3533° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.628° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	46 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	142km 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	2018-10-05 13:37:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-05 17:07:01	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	152	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	9	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.5076	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	331	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	pr2018278007	Id of event.
Event Code	2018278007	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018278007,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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