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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on December 16, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.8911S, -67.5097WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt19350002, us60006se9. Id of event: us60006se9. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:20:08 / 5:20 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 22.58 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 22.58 km, -67.5097° West, 18.8911° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/12/19 / 2019-12-16 22:20:08 / December 16, 2019 @ 10:20 pm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arecibo, Lares, Hormigueros (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Lares (c. 7 200 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 61 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.5097° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8911° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61km NW 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 2019-12-16 22:20:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-16 22:35:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 312 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 0.898 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us60006se9 Id of event.
Event Code 60006se9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt19350002,us60006se9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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