Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Vieques in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was reported 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Vieques in Puerto Rico on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 70.75 km (44 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr71450193. Id of event: pr71450193. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/05/24 / 2024-05-25 07:43:11 / May 25, 2024 @ 7:43 am. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:43:11 / 7:43 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -65.545833333333° West, latitude 18.900166666667° North, depth = 70.75 km.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Cataño (c. 28 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Naguabo, Cataño, Trujillo Alto.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days fourty-one and in the last 365 days 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. 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: 60 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.545833333333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.900166666667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	70.75 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	60 km 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	2024-05-25 07:43:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-25 08:28:45	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.7783	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.42 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	232	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	pr71450193	Id of event.
Event Code	71450193	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71450193,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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