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Minor earthquake, 3.21 mag was detected near Vieques in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.21 (ml/mb) was reported 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Vieques in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 14.8 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -65.621 West, latitude 18.847666666667 North, depth = 14.8 km. Id of earthquake: pr71467758. Event ids that are associated: pr71467758. The temblor was picked up at 02:49:13 / 2:49 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/12/24 / 2024-12-04 02:49:13 / December 4, 2024 @ 2:49 am.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Campanilla, Isabel Segunda, Candelaria (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 51 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.21 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.621° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.847666666667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	51 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	2024-12-04 02:49:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-04 03:10:32	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	159	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	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6259	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.49 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	226	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	pr71467758	Id of event.
Event Code	71467758	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71467758,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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