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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 2 km SE of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 7, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9992S, -66.7773WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Guayanilla in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Exact location, longitude -66.7773° West, latitude 17.9992° North, depth = 30.31 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 30.31 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:21:02 / 8:21 am (local time epicenter). 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: us70006vpu. Id of event: us70006vpu. Global time and date of event 07/01/20 / 2020-01-07 12:21:02 / January 7, 2020 @ 12:21 pm UTC/GMT.

The epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Trujillo Alto, Gurabo, San Lorenzo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 2 km SE of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7773° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9992° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km SE of Guayanilla, 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 2020-01-07 12:21:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-07 12:49:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 259 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 ,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 0.168 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 191 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 us70006vpu Id of event.
Event Code 70006vpu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006vpu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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