Minor earthquake: M3.36 quake has struck near Vieques in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.36 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 138 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico (86 miles). Exact location, longitude -65.358333333333° West, latitude 19.589° North, depth = 72.98 km. Global time and date of event 18/11/24 / 2024-11-18 02:56:59 / November 18, 2024 @ 2:56 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 72.98 km (45 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr71466048. Id of event: pr71466048. The 3.36-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:56:59 / 2:56 am (local time epicenter).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 138 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.36 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.358333333333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.589° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	72.98 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	2024-11-18 02:56:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-18 03:25:31	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	174	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	9	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.288	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.28 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	280	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	pr71466048	Id of event.
Event Code	71466048	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71466048,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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