Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Emajagua in Puerto Rico

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Emajagua in Puerto Rico on Monday. Exact location, longitude -65.8529° West, latitude 17.7789° North, depth = 1 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:29:51 / 10:29 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1 km (1 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/12/16 / 2016-12-05 14:29:51 / December 5, 2016 @ 2:29 pm. Unique identifier: pr16340016. Ids that are associated to the event: at00ohpuxs, pr16340016. A tsunami warning has been issued near Emajagua in Puerto Rico (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Peñuelas, Vega Baja, Jayuya. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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: 24 km S of Emajagua, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.8529° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.7789° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	24km S of Emajagua, 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	2016-12-05 14:29:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-05 15:01:35	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	222	The total number of felt reports
CDI	5.4	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	1	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	445	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	,at,pr,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	69	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.31081709	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.67 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	Ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	pr16340016	Id of event.
Event Code	16340016	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00ohpuxs,pr16340016,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.6 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-65.8529° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

17.7789° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

1 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

24km S of Emajagua, 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

2016-12-05 14:29:51

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2016-12-05 15:01:35

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

-240

Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.

Felt

222

The total number of felt reports

CDI

5.4

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

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

445

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.

Sources

,at,pr,

A comma-separated list of network contributors.

Number of Stations Used

The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.

Horizontal Distance

0.31081709

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.67 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

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

pr16340016

Id of event.

Event Code

16340016

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,at00ohpuxs,pr16340016,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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