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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 7, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9993S, -66.7673WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006vn6, pr2020007035. Id of event: pr2020007035. The temblor was detected at 05:35:37 / 5:35 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/01/20 / 2020-01-07 09:35:37 / January 7, 2020 @ 9:35 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 13 km (8 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -66.7673° West, 17.9993° North, depth 13 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 87 km (54 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Trujillo Alto, Gurabo, San Lorenzo (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 1 km WSW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7673° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9993° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km WSW of Tallaboa, 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 09:35:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-07 18:24:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 6.1 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 249 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 ,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1668 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 185 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 pr2020007035 Id of event.
Event Code 2020007035 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006vn6,pr2020007035, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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