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Minor earthquake 3.34 mag, 151 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.6815S, -65.274166666667WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.34 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 151 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico (94 miles). The temblor was detected at 01:01:01 / 1:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 12/11/24 / 2024-11-12 01:01:01 / November 12, 2024 @ 1:01 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -65.274166666667° West, latitude 19.6815° North, depth = 24.69 km. Event id: pr71465453. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr71465453. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24.69 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Each 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 one, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days fourty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-five 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. 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: 151 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.34 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.274166666667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.6815° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 151 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 2024-11-12 01:01:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-12 01:27:47 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 172 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.356 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 283 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 pr71465453 Id of event.
Event Code 71465453 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr71465453, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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