Minor earthquake 2.88 mag, 86 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 86 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico (53 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28 km (17 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -65.5213 West, latitude 19.146 North, depth = 28 km. The 2.88-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:46:14 / 1:46 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019238004. Unique identifier: pr2019238004. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/08/19 / 2019-08-26 17:46:14 / August 26, 2019 @ 5:46 pm.

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 86 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.88 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.5213° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.146° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	28 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	86km 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	2019-08-26 17:46:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-08-26 18:18:45	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	128	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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.0083	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	309	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	pr2019238004	Id of event.
Event Code	2019238004	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019238004,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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