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Minor earthquake 3.7 mag, 123 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.4788S, -65.4561WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was reported 123 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico (76 miles) on Tuesday. The temblor was reported at 07:06:05 / 7:06 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2024331000. Event ids that are associated: pr2024331000. Global time and date of event 26/11/24 / 2024-11-26 07:06:05 / November 26, 2024 @ 7:06 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.4561 West, latitude 19.4788 North, depth = 83 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 83 km (52 miles) below the earth’s surface.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 twenty-nine, in the past 30 days sixty-seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 123 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.4561° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4788° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 123 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 2024-11-26 07:06:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-26 07:41:01 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 211 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.184 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 241 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 pr2024331000 Id of event.
Event Code 2024331000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2024331000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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