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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Isabela in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.0581S, -67.0909WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. All ids that are associated to the event: pt19268051, us70005ky1. Unique identifier: us70005ky1. The temblor was detected at 21:05:07 / 9:05 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/09/19 / 2019-09-25 01:05:07 / September 25, 2019 @ 1:05 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -67.0909° West, 19.0581° North, depth 10 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Utuado, Mayagüez, Florida (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-two, in the last 10 days fourty-seven, in the past 30 days sixty-one and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 62 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.0909° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0581° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km N 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 2019-09-25 01:05:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-25 01:23:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 36 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 341 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 0.776 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us70005ky1 Id of event.
Event Code 70005ky1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt19268051,us70005ky1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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