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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Guanica in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 8, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.8624S, -66.8488WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. The temblor was reported at 07:44:16 / 7:44 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.96 km (4 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 08/01/20 / 2020-01-08 11:44:16 / January 8, 2020 @ 11:44 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -66.8488° West, latitude 17.8624° North, depth = 5.96 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us70006wai. Event ids that are associated: us70006wai.

Earthquake epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Candelaria Arenas, Candelaria, Dorado (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty, in the last 10 days one hundred and fifty-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and eighty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 13 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8488° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8624° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km SSE of Guanica, 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 11:44:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-08 11:58:24 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 0.286 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 us70006wai Id of event.
Event Code 70006wai An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006wai, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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