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Light earthquake 4 mag, 96 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on February 13, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.2877S, -67.4794WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 96 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico (60 miles) on Saturday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16044000. Id of event: pr16044000. Global time and date of event 13/02/16 / 2016-02-13 07:49:47 / February 13, 2016 @ 7:49 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -67.4794° West, latitude 19.2877° North, depth = 61 km. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:49:47 / 3:49 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 61 km (38 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 96 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.4794° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2877° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 96km NNW of San Antonio, 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 2016-02-13 07:49:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-13 09:12:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 246 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.8875355 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 288 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 pr16044000 Id of event.
Event Code 16044000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16044000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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