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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

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A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 09/01/20 / 2020-01-09 20:11:22 / January 9, 2020 @ 8:11 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.61 km (10 miles). Id of earthquake: us70006x83. Event ids that are associated: us70006x83. Exact location, longitude -66.6854° West, latitude 17.929° North, depth = 16.61 km. The temblor was reported at 16:11:22 / 4:11 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Juncos, Yabucoa, Trujillo Alto. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km SSE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.6854° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.929° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16.61 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km 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	2020-01-09 20:11:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-09 20:34:50	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	247	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	0.176	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.68 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	96	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	us70006x83	Id of event.
Event Code	70006x83	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70006x83,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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