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Light earthquake, 4.14 mag strikes near Guanica in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 11, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9606S, -66.9445WA light earthquake magnitude 4.14 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Saturday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/01/20 / 2020-01-11 08:59:52 / January 11, 2020 @ 8:59 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 04:59:52 / 4:59 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.9445 West, latitude 17.9606 North, depth = 7 km. Id of earthquake: pr2020011007. Event ids that are associated: us70006y9m, pr2020011007.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Campanilla, Dorado, Toa Baja (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 35 km (22 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km SSW of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.14 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.9445° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9606° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km SSW 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 2020-01-11 08:59:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-11 09:23:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.6 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 266 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 ,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0669 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 198 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 pr2020011007 Id of event.
Event Code 2020011007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006y9m,pr2020011007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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