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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

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A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6 km (4 miles). Exact location, longitude -66.7125° West, latitude 17.9221° North, depth = 6 km. The temblor was picked up at 16:32:59 / 4:32 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/01/20 / 2020-01-07 20:32:59 / January 7, 2020 @ 8:32 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: pr2020007053. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020007053, us70006vym.

The epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yabucoa, Trujillo Alto, San Juan (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-four, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourty-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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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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. 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: 4 km SSE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.7125° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9221° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km SSE 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 20:32:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-07 20:50:05	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	7	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.5	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	248	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	,pr,us,	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	0.1608	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	222	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	pr2020007053	Id of event.
Event Code	2020007053	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020007053,us70006vym,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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