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Light earthquake, 4.17 mag was detected near Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.17 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 01:03:13 / 1:03 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: pr2020009004. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt20009001, us70006ws9, pr2020009004. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/01/20 / 2020-01-09 05:03:13 / January 9, 2020 @ 5:03 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8316 West, latitude 17.9996 North, depth = 11 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cataño, Caguas, Patillas. Event epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop).

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

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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: 13 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.17 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8316° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9996° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km SSE of Maria Antonia, 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	2020-01-09 05:03:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-09 05:39:47	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	103	The total number of felt reports
CDI	6.3	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	332	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	,pt,us,pr,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2147	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.13 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	182	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	pr2020009004	Id of event.
Event Code	2020009004	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt20009001,us70006ws9,pr2020009004,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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