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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Vieques in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on November 9, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.4697S, -65.3948WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 124 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico (77 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us7000nqv3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt24314001, us7000nqv3. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 09/11/24 / 2024-11-09 10:15:45 / November 9, 2024 @ 10:15 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.3948 West, latitude 19.4697 North, depth = 10 km. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:15:45 / 10:15 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days fourty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 124 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.3948° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4697° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 124 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 10:15:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-09 10:32:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 385 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pt,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 73 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.186 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000nqv3 Id of event.
Event Code 7000nqv3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt24314001,us7000nqv3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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