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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Puerto Real in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on September 5, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.1263S, -67.2696WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Puerto Real in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/09/19 / 2019-09-05 09:33:29 / September 5, 2019 @ 9:33 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us70005c8m. Event ids that are associated: pt19248050, us70005c8m. The temblor was reported at 05:33:29 / 5:33 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -67.2696 West, latitude 18.1263 North, depth = 31.52 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 31.52 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Coamo, Morovis, Orocovis (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km WNW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2696° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.1263° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km WNW of Puerto Real, 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 2019-09-05 09:33:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-05 09:58:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 34 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.9 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 325 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pt,us, 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 0.149 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70005c8m Id of event.
Event Code 70005c8m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt19248050,us70005c8m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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