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Light earthquake, 4.27 mag was detected near Vieques in Puerto Rico

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Earthquake location 19.6466S, -65.3375WA light earthquake magnitude 4.27 (ml/mb) strikes 144 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico (89 miles) on Saturday. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000pwa4, pr2025060003. Unique identifier: pr2025060003. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 12:58:05 / 12:58 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/03/25 / 2025-03-01 12:58:05 / March 1, 2025 @ 12:58 pm. Exact location of event, depth 25 km, -65.3375° West, 19.6466° North.

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light 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: 144 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.27 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.3375° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.6466° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 144 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 2025-03-01 12:58:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-01 13:43:13 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 281 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 ,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.3402 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 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 pr2025060003 Id of event.
Event Code 2025060003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pwa4,pr2025060003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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