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Minor earthquake: M3.12 quake has struck near Vieques in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on November 20, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.973666666667S, -65.5385WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.12 (ml/mb) was reported 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Vieques in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. Id of earthquake: pr71466208. Event ids that are associated: pr71466208. The temblor was reported at 09:00:24 / 9:00 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/11/24 / 2024-11-20 09:00:24 / November 20, 2024 @ 9:00 am. Exact location of event, longitude -65.5385 West, latitude 18.973666666667 North, depth = 38.77 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 38.77 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Río Grande (c. 13 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Canovanas (c. 8 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Luquillo (c. 8 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ceiba, Carolina, Culebra (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days sixty and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 68 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.12 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.5385° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.973666666667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68 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 2024-11-20 09:00:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-20 10:32:48 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 150 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 0.7057 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 255 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 pr71466208 Id of event.
Event Code 71466208 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr71466208, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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