Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag was detected near Vieques in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 114 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico (71 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/03/19 / 2019-03-28 18:18:16 / March 28, 2019 @ 6:18 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.3803 West, latitude 19.3691 North, depth = 104 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 104 km (65 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: pr2019087012. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019087012. The temblor was reported at 14:18:16 / 2:18 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every 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.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.3803° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.3691° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	104 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	114km 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	2019-03-28 18:18:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-03-28 18:48:11	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	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	4	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.4957	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	332	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	pr2019087012	Id of event.
Event Code	2019087012	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019087012,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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