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Minor earthquake: M3.63 quake has struck near Vieques in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.9931S, -65.6631WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.63 (ml/mb) was reported 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Vieques in Puerto Rico on Sunday. Exact location of event, longitude -65.6631 West, latitude 18.9931 North, depth = 95 km. The 3.63-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:41:30 / 12:41 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 01/12/24 / 2024-12-01 12:41:30 / December 1, 2024 @ 12:41 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 95 km (59 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2024336001. Unique identifier: pr2024336001.

Epicenter of the event was 75 km (47 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guaynabo, Bayamón, Sabana Seca.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days thirty-three, in the past 30 days sixty-seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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. 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: 65 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.63 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.6631° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9931° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65 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 2024-12-01 12:41:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-01 13:54:02 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 203 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 0.7841 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 272 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 pr2024336001 Id of event.
Event Code 2024336001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2024336001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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