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Minor earthquake, 3.94 mag was detected near Vieques in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on April 28, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.6148S, -65.2938WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.94 (ml/mb) was reported 143 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico (89 miles) on Tuesday. The temblor was detected at 03:40:44 / 3:40 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2020119007. Event ids that are associated: pr2020119007. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 82 km (51 miles). Global time and date of event 28/04/20 / 2020-04-28 07:40:44 / April 28, 2020 @ 7:40 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 82 km, -65.2938° West, 19.6148° North.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.94 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.2938° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.6148° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 143km 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 2020-04-28 07:40:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-28 09:04:53 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 239 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.3073 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 299 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 pr2020119007 Id of event.
Event Code 2020119007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020119007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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