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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Indios in Puerto Rico

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Event id: us70006w6v. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006w6v. Exact location of earthquake, -66.8195° West, 17.8649° North, depth 10 km. The temblor was reported at 23:52:46 / 11:52 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 08/01/20 / 2020-01-08 03:52:46 / January 8, 2020 @ 3:52 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the event was 92 km (57 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guaynabo, Bayamón, Sabana Seca (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 14 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8195° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.8649° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km S 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	2020-01-08 03:52:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-08 04:06:37	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	284	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	0.269	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.86 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	153	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	us70006w6v	Id of event.
Event Code	70006w6v	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70006w6v,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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