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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Indios in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9644S, -66.7748WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 06/01/20 / 2020-01-06 21:37:55 / January 6, 2020 @ 9:37 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: pt20006005, us70006vf5. Unique identifier: us70006vf5. Exact location of event, longitude -66.7748 West, latitude 17.9644 North, depth = 10 km. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:37:55 / 5:37 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Las Piedras, Carolina, Yabucoa (min 5000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km SE of Indios, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7748° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9644° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km SE of Indios, 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 2020-01-06 21:37:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-06 21:56:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 95 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.3 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 390 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 0.178 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us70006vf5 Id of event.
Event Code 70006vf5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt20006005,us70006vf5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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