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Light earthquake, 4.68 mag strikes near Vieques in Puerto Rico

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Earthquake location 19.6238S, -65.3376WA light earthquake magnitude 4.68 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 142 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico (88 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/11/24 / 2024-11-09 10:15:46 / November 9, 2024 @ 10:15 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -65.3376 West, latitude 19.6238 North, depth = 74 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 74 km (46 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 10:15:46 / 10:15 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2024314000. Event ids that are associated: pt24314001, us7000nqv3, pr2024314000.

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 142 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.68 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.3376° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.6238° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 142 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 2024-11-09 10:15:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-09 11:17:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 91 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.2 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 384 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 ,pt,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.3247 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 223 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 pr2024314000 Id of event.
Event Code 2024314000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt24314001,us7000nqv3,pr2024314000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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