Minor earthquake: M3.71 quake has struck near Vieques in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.71 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 138 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico (86 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/11/24 / 2024-11-10 05:59:26 / November 10, 2024 @ 5:59 am. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2024315001. Unique identifier: pr2024315001. Exact location of event, depth 60 km, -65.3571° West, 19.5911° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 60 km (37 miles). The 3.71-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:59:26 / 5:59 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days fourty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 138 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.71 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.3571° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.5911° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	60 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	138 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	2024-11-10 05:59:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-10 06:20:32	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	212	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	15	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.2992	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.34 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	278	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	pr2024315001	Id of event.
Event Code	2024315001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2024315001,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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