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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 9, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.8677S, -66.8274WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico. Event id: us70006ws9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt20009001, us70006ws9. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/01/20 / 2020-01-09 05:03:11 / January 9, 2020 @ 5:03 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8274 West, latitude 17.8677 North, depth = 5 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:03:11 / 1:03 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Levittown, Guaynabo, Bayamón (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 92 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 (42 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 13 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8274° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8677° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 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 05:03:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-09 05:21:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 88 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 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 352 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 ,pt,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 0.273 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us70006ws9 Id of event.
Event Code 70006ws9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt20009001,us70006ws9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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