Minor earthquake, 3.83 mag was detected near Vieques in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.83 (ml/mb) was reported 139 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico (86 miles) on Monday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/11/24 / 2024-11-25 06:46:48 / November 25, 2024 @ 6:46 am. The temblor was reported at 06:46:48 / 6:46 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2024330002. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2024330002. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 61 km (38 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -65.2665° West, 19.5623° North, depth 61 km.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days twenty-seven, in the past 30 days sixty-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 139 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.83 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.2665° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.5623° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	61 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	139 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	2024-11-25 06:46:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-25 07:08:07	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	226	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	21	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.2466	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.39 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	259	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	pr2024330002	Id of event.
Event Code	2024330002	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2024330002,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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