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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Isabela in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on September 24, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.167S, -67.165WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:51:07 / 11:51 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 24/09/19 / 2019-09-24 03:51:07 / September 24, 2019 @ 3:51 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.165 West, latitude 19.167 North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pt19267003. Unique identifier: pt19267003.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Añasco, San Sebastián, Rincón (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 91 km (56 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 75 km NNW of Isabela, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.165° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.167° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km NNW of Isabela, 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 2019-09-24 03:51:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-24 03:56:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 354 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network pt The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pt, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 18 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 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 212.399983008 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 pt19267003 Id of event.
Event Code 19267003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt19267003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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