Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Emajagua in Puerto Rico

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Emajagua in Puerto Rico. All ids that are associated to the event: at00ohpuxs. Unique identifier: at00ohpuxs. A tsunami warning has been issued near Emajagua in Puerto Rico (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 05/12/16 / 2016-12-05 14:29:52 / December 5, 2016 @ 2:29 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 13 km (8 miles). The temblor was reported at 10:29:52 / 10:29 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.87 West, latitude 17.842 North, depth = 13 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Estancias de Florida, Peñuelas, Florida.

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

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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: 17 km S of Emajagua, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Bayamon Caguas Carolina Emajagua Estancias de Florida Florida Guaynabo Peñuelas Ponce Puerto Rico San Juan Trujillo Alto

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.87° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.842° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km 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 14:29:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-05 14:31:59	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	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	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	312	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,at,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	179.9999856	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	at00ohpuxs	Id of event.
Event Code	00ohpuxs	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00ohpuxs,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.5 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-65.87° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

17.842° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

13 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

17km 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 14:29:52

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2016-12-05 14:31:59

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

Timezone offset

-240

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

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

312

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,

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

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

Root Mean Square

0.24 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

179.9999856

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

at00ohpuxs

Id of event.

Event Code

00ohpuxs

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

Event IDS

,at00ohpuxs,

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

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