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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 49 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico

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Earthquake location 19.092S, -67.2023WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. The epicenter was at a depth of 8 km (5 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/09/19 / 2019-09-27 03:51:38 / September 27, 2019 @ 3:51 am. Exact location of earthquake, -67.2023° West, 19.092° North, depth 8 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt19270000, us70005m71, pr2019270000. Id of event: pr2019270000. The temblor was picked up at 23:51:38 / 11:51 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mayagüez, Las Marías, Lares. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 99 km (62 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Lares (c. 7 200 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop).

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

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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, 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 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2023° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.092° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8 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 03:51:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-27 04:42:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 56 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 361 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,us,pr, 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 0.6311 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 209 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 pr2019270000 Id of event.
Event Code 2019270000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt19270000,us70005m71,pr2019270000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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