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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on September 27, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9287S, -67.1837WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Id of earthquake: us70005m71. Event ids that are associated: pt19270000, us70005m71. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:51:37 / 11:51 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/09/19 / 2019-09-27 03:51:37 / September 27, 2019 @ 3:51 am. Exact location, longitude -67.1837° West, latitude 18.9287° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Adjuntas, Adjuntas, Sabana Grande (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty 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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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 49 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.1837° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9287° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km N of San Antonio, 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 2019-09-27 03:51:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-27 04:10:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 17 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 331 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 0.708 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 70 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 us70005m71 Id of event.
Event Code 70005m71 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt19270000,us70005m71, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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