Minor earthquake: M3.75 quake has struck near Vieques in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.75 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 163 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico (101 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2024352000. Id of event: pr2024352000. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/12/24 / 2024-12-17 05:46:04 / December 17, 2024 @ 5:46 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 60 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -65.3° West, latitude 19.8161° North, depth = 60 km. The 3.75-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:46:04 / 5:46 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days sixty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 163 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.75 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.3° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.8161° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	60 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	163 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	2024-12-17 05:46:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-17 06:12:45	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	216	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	10	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.5012	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.38 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	303	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	pr2024352000	Id of event.
Event Code	2024352000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2024352000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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