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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Culebra in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.2611S, -65.0546WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 88 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico (55 miles) on Saturday. The epicenter was at a depth of 6 km (4 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt19181000, pr2019181002, us700047jt. Id of event: pr2019181002. Global time and date of event 30/06/19 / 2019-06-30 01:50:42 / June 30, 2019 @ 1:50 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -65.0546° West, 19.2611° North, depth 6 km. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:50:42 / 9:50 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days fifty-two and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 88 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.0546° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2611° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 88km N of Culebra, 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 2019-06-30 01:50:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-30 03:03:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 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 ,pt,pr,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.3722 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 218 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 pr2019181002 Id of event.
Event Code 2019181002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt19181000,pr2019181002,us700047jt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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