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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Jauca in Puerto Rico

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Jauca in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/10/19 / 2019-10-25 00:30:28 / October 25, 2019 @ 12:30 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 20:30:28 / 8:30 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.3292 West, latitude 17.889 North, depth = 8.55 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.55 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt19298050, us600062rb. Id of event: us600062rb.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 68 km (42 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Puerto Real, Mayagüez, Quebradillas.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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: 9 km SSE of Jauca, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.3292° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.889° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.55 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km SSE of Jauca, 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	2019-10-25 00:30:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-10-25 00:44:37	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	83	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	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	332	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	0.277	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.51 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	182	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	us600062rb	Id of event.
Event Code	600062rb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt19298050,us600062rb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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